In Some Ways, the Navigation Laws and Mercantilist System Were

question 93

Multiple Choice

In some ways, the Navigation Laws and mercantilist system were a burden to certain colonists because

• A) northern merchants derived greater benefit from the system than did southern planters.
• B) those colonists were heavily taxed to help provide financing for the Royal Navy, which protected colonial and British trade.
• C) they stifled economic initiative.
• D) Britain had the only European empire based on mercantilist principles.
• E) they gave greater benefits to slaveholders.

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Definitions:

Bystander Effect

A social psychological phenomenon in which individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present.

Actor-Observer Effect

The tendency to attribute one's own actions to external factors, while attributing others' actions to their personality.

Primacy Effect

The psychological phenomenon whereby the first items presented in a list are remembered more easily than those in the middle.

Recency Effect

A memory bias that occurs when the most recently presented items or experiences are more likely to be remembered than those presented earlier.