Mercantilism was an economic theory whereby colonies were founded and maintained for the benefit of the mother country. Furthermore, the government had the ability to regulate its own economy with the intent of dominating over rival countries. Mercantilist countries tended to favor the creation of domestic (national) industries and businesses, and tried to discourage importing goods from other economies (usually by tariffs.) Effective mercantilism was thought to enable a country to become economically self-sufficient. This is the sort of relationship England had with the American colonies. Mercantilism dominated the economic landscape. Colonists were only able to trade with British merchants, and colonial manufacturing ventures were largely frowned upon. The British Navigation Acts regulated these policies. Smuggling was common. Politically, the British practiced a policy of salutary neglect.
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "Food crops were abundant enough to feed all Europeans and Indians." Under British rule, all of the following were true EXCEPT Food crops were abundant enough to feed all Europeans and Indians.<span>
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<span>There's really not a whole lot of truth to this
statement. The dropping of the two atomic bombs of Japan were thought to
be the only possible way to get Japan to surrender. </span>
Prior to the War of 1812, the British navy engaged in impressment, which meant that they would force American sailors to work on British ships.
One of the causes of the War of 1812 was because of the British navy forcing American sailors to work on their British ships. Great Britain would try to justify this by saying the sailors were British runaways and they needed to be forced to work on their ships. The United States felt like this was very embarrassing and disheartening to them, as they could not protect their own ships from seizures and kidnapping.
Americans were not happy with this and they eventually had enough. They declared war on Great Britain, because of impressment, but also because of the many other factors that made America fed up with Great Britain.
During feudalism, European countries were governed by an absolut king, who held all the power and it was believed that he had been appointed directly by God. The feudal system was divided into Three States of Realm or social classes. The First and Second State were constituted by the privileged ones who owned the land and who were the aristocracy and the clergy, and the Third States was consituted by the servants of the former states, mainly peasants, craftsmen or small traders.
The Third State worked within the lands owned by a First or Second State aristocrat. They enjoyed the protection of their lord, and in exchange they worked his land. <u>This was the way in which the feudal society gave some kind of benefitial retribution to each of the three states</u> (3rd state: protection and a home, 1st and 2nd: free workers).
Anyway, even tough they were given land to grow crops, the living conditions of the Third State were extremely hard. They did not own the crops they harvested, so they had to hand in fixed amount to the harvest to the lord and from the amount collected on top of the tax, they could eat. If some year, the harvests were damaged and they did not collect enough, they had nothing to eat.
