According to Economic Structuralists, the Stamp Act and the Navigation

question 59

Multiple Choice

According to economic structuralists, the Stamp Act and the Navigation Acts were examples of

• A) trade provisions aimed at giving firms in the colonizing country an advantage over those in the colony.
• B) investment policies that gave an advantage to businesses in the colonial territories.
• C) burdensome economic policies that cost England's treasury dearly and eventually encouraged them to free the American colonies.
• D) important trade subsidies that allowed the American colonies' enterprises to grow rapidly.

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