Question

Which of the following was a mercantilist practice that angered American colonists?

sending large amounts of gold and silver to the colonies from England.

using slaves in Europe to manufacture good to sell to colonists.

banning colonists from fishing or trading in animal furs.

having to pay high duties on foreign sugar and molasses.

Answer 1

Having to pay high duties on foreign sugar and molasses.

Step-by-step explanation:

During the colonial era, especially from the mid-1700s, Britain began to carry out increasingly protectionist policies regarding its production, framed in the mercantilist concept of economic production. Mercantilism, in short, established that the wealth of a country is mediated in terms of its production of resources and its territorial extension, which allowed nations to accumulate wealth.

In this context, the British government began to prohibit its colonies from trading with other European nations (as this would benefit their economies), establishing commercial monopolies in the colonies, which implied a huge loss of rights on the part of the colonists, harming their economic and political freedoms.