<em>Why did King George III strictly enforce the Navigation Acts?</em>
A) Britain wanted to expand trade and needed more resources from the colonies..
<em>Britain was losing money in trade with the colonies. Britain wanted to expand trade and needed more resources from the colonies. Britain wanted the colonies to pay for part of the cost of the French and Indian War. George II wanted to show the colonies his power.</em><em>European nations during the 17th- and 18th-centuries believed in the economic theory of mercantilism. In a mercantilist system, there is believed to be a limited amount of wealth in the world. One nation's gain was another's loss. Thus, monarchs sought to tightly control trade within their colonies.</em>
A department that is traditionally focused on domestic issues could become involved in foreign policy-making because of two main reasons:
- It can regulate a good or service given internationally. For example, it can be clothes or technological devices.
- Foreign policy-making (or foreign relations), also regulates behavior that could have an international consequence. For example, it could be a business that contaminates the environment.
No, it is not true that the development of armies, navies, and weapons is called imperialism. This would be called "nationalism". Imperialism refers to when countries take over and dominate other countries.
