Question

Analyze the multiple causes of and various responses to smuggling activities in the Caribbean region during the late eighteenth century. Identify one additional kind of document and explain briefly how it would help your analysis of the causes and responses.

Answer 1

Answer:

Causes of Smuggling in Carribean Region

Smuggling was often organised by gangs who were funded by investors or venturers.

The need for making more profits led to increase in smuggling in the Caribbean because the Smugglers could bring into the country, goods by avoiding tax duties and so selling the goods to the consumers

while the government response was to seize goods and encourage informants.

Document 1,5 and 8.

Document 5 comes was made from the Dominica governor’s response to the British secretary of state’s questionnaire.

Caribbean, a series of shortsighted policy and political decisions led to the smugglers acquisition, exposure which increased its vulnerability to hazards. High levels of debt

When asked about trade with foreign colonies and what is received or sent. The document 5 was done when the English sugar gets much more money than French sugar because the then French island colonies has little to no no economic development