Mercantilism, an economic policy designed to increase a nation's wealth through exports, thrived in Great Britain between the 16th and 18th centuries. Between 1640-1660, Great Britain enjoyed the greatest benefits of mercantilism. The resulting favorable balance of trade was thought to increase national wealth.
mercantilism is the belief in the idea that a nation's wealth can be increased by the control of trade: expanding exports and limiting imports. The METROPOLE (mother country) benifits the most
Carpetbaggers, opportunists from the north, and scalawags swindled people out of their property, exploited the poor, illiterate, and naive former slaves, giving them false promises of "forty acres and a mule" and manipulating them for their own political purposes.
