Final answer:
False, The exportation of raw materials to Europe during the colonial period did not benefit Native Americans. The colonial mercantile system centered on the export of raw materials for the benefit of colonial powers, not Native Americans.
Step-by-step explanation:
The statement that the exportation of large quantities of raw materials to Europe during the colonial period benefited Native Americans is false. The colonial export of resources like cotton and tobacco primarily benefited the colonial powers and their economies.
It was part of the mercantilist system, where colonies provided raw materials for the industrial growth of their respective colonial powers, which in the case of British North America, was England. The colonizationist scheme of the early 1800s was generally not popular among black abolitionists, as it is indicated to be false.
Furthermore, the claim that most colonists in eighteenth-century North America were largely self-sufficient and did not need to import consumer goods from Britain is false; colonists were engaged in a transatlantic trade relationship reliant on imported goods.