Question

How did england make money from its colonies?

Answer 1

England made money from its colonies through taxing the populations and forcing trade between subject and overlord then traded that to the rest of the world (the trade of spices from india and tobacco and cotton from america)

Answer 2

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

England made money from its colonies mostly by heavy taxation. For instance, the laws and taxes imposed by the British monarchies to the 13 American colonies were the Stamp Act, the Navigation Act, the Sugar Act, the Wool Act, the Quartering Act, Townsend Acts, among others. Of course, these laws angered the American colonist because they did not have any voice and no representation in the British Parliament. These heavy taxations were important causes that later derived in the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence.