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ACTIVITY
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Carefully read the following pair of secondary sources and answer the accompany-
ing Short-Answer Question.

Using the excerpts, answer A, B, and C.
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“By 1763 the American colonies were reconciled to the English mercantilist
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policy. . . . Mercantilism as a theory of statecraft . . . was dominant in Europe
during the entire colonial period. . . . Mercantilism had for its primary purpose
the creation of a strong state. . . . Governments extended their control over
commerce and industry on the theory that the economic activity of the
individual should be subordinated to the welfare of the nation. The state
must become a self-sufficient unit, independent from other competing
nations.”
E. A. J. Johnson, “Some Evidence of Mercantilism in
Massachusetts Bay,” The New England Quarterly, 1928
“The nature of wealth and the role of colonies formed only part of the debates
that raged over trade, markets, money, consumption, . . . morality, and the
proper role of government in commerce. Free-trade ideas circulated as early
as the late sixteenth century and gained traction in the early seventeenth
century. . . . [T]he Navigation Acts, although devastating to some colonial
economies in the short term, opened a huge English free-trade zone . . .
which benefited the northern colonies enormously. . . . [T]hey were free
to trade directly with non-English nations — that is, until the 1760s, when
authorities expanded the enumerated list to include many heretofore-
unregulated exports and imports.”
Ellen Newell, “Putting the ‘Political’ Back in Political Economy
(This Is Not Your Parents’ Mercantilism),”
The William and Mary Quarterly, 2012
(A) Briefly describe ONE major difference between Johnson’s and Newell’s historical
interpretations of British mercantilist policy.
(B) Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event or development from the period
1607 to 1754 that is not explicitly mentioned in the excerpts could be used to
support Johnson’s argument.
(C) Briefly explain how ONE specific historical event or development from the period
1607 to 1754 that is not explicitly mentioned in the excerpts could be used to
support Newell’s argument.

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