Question

Which option identifies a primary goal of mercantilism?

a. spreading economic influence through Christianity
b. complete economic freedom for a colony
c. heavy taxation of merchant activity
d. amassing wealth through trade

Answer 1

d. amassing wealth through trade

Step-by-step explanation:

Mercantilism is the colonised economic policy which increased the exports and decreased the imports through trade. Industrial revolution started from mid 18th century and it leads to colonial powers captured Asian, American and African countries. Britain, Spain, Portugal, and France were the major colonial powers, those people captured the countries and implement the trade practices which benefit only to their own nation. They expanding their wealth through unfair trade between the colonised and colonial nations.

Answer 2

d. amassing wealth through trade

Step-by-step explanation:

Mercantilists believe that the main purpose of trade is to make a nation more powerful.

In the 18th century, it became the favorite technique of Americans. The limitation of trade with France, Spain or the Netherlands, for example, was intended to exert excessive trade so that gold and silver flow into London.