Mercantilists Believed That

question 64

Multiple Choice

Mercantilists believed that

• A) a mother country needed to import more goods than it exported.
• B) power came from a small colonial empire.
• C) the mother country produced raw materials and colonies produced the finished product.
• D) a country's economic wealth could be measured by the amount of gold and silver in its treasury.
• E) colonies drained a country of its resources.

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Definitions:

Implicit Attitudes

Unconscious beliefs or feelings towards objects, people, or situations that can influence behavior and perceptions.

Accessible

Easily reached or obtained; easy to understand or appreciate.

Automatically

Occurring involuntarily or without conscious thought, as in actions or processes in the human body or computers.

Conformity

The act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms, policies, or societal expectations.