4.2 - British Colonization - Part 2

The economic theory that believed that colonies existed to benefit the Mother Country

• capitalism

• mercantilism

• feudalism

• imaginationism

England thought that the original _____ colonies should exist to benefit England.

• 50

• 12

• 14

• 13

England thought that a country should _____ more than it imports.

• export

• report

• carport

• calculate

England thought that it would become very wealthy if it sold more goods than it bought.

• True

• False

The goal of mercantilsm is for the Mother Country to get money through _____ with its colonies.

• sales

• trade

• stealing

• talking

King Charles started the Navigation Acts so the _____ could only trade with Britain to increase British wealth.

• British

• French

• colonists

• rebels

_____ was the Mother Country to the original thirteen colonies.

• France

• Britain

• Spain

• Germany

Imports are goods brought in from another country.

• True

• False

Exports are goods that leave a country to be sold to another country.

• True

• False

Great Britain got raw materials from the colonies at very high prices.

• True

• False