Bourbon Spain Failed to Reconquer Its Colonial Trade Because of

question 25

Multiple Choice

Bourbon Spain failed to reconquer its colonial trade because of

• A) increasingly efficient competition from colonial industrial producers.
• B) special commercial advantages granted British merchants by the Metheun Treaty.
• C) political resistance from Spanish colonies jealous of their growing economic independence.
• D) its own national industrial weakness and its failure to keep sea lanes open during wartime.

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