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How did the British Empire's policies toward the American Colonies succeed and fail?
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By the 1770s, the British Empire managed to establish its Empire across in several
colonies across America.

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During the process, the American colonists had the notion that they were citizens of
Great Britain. They also assumed they were King George III subjects.

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The British Empire policies were known to create mixed reactions to most of its colonies

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Across the American colonies, the British Empire nearly succeeded before eventually
failing. Most experts blamed the failure on the hard stance that the British Empire seemed
to adopt.

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The British Empire policy and its success factor can be linked to aspects such as the
promotion of domestic industry across America, fisheries and foreign trade.

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The policies set a perfect platform for shipping by planting some of the colonial
settlements, mostly in the New World

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Resource exploitation through the various commercial companies such as the South Sea
Company and the Hudson Bay Company became instrumental in enhancing the country's
economy and job opportunities for many Americans

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Research studies indicate that most of the colonial policies were initiated during the
sixteenth-century charters to Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert. American.

Which policies do you feel were most successful, which were the most damaging?
Land Policy
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Research studies claim that the systems had the success factor and the damaging aspect.

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Perhaps the most successful policy was the Empire's policy on land.

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The approach was instrumental in economic growth.

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The policy allowed provincial America to focus primarily on manufacturing and

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cultivating products since it had limited subsistence agriculture.
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Before the Empire, the land served as individual needs.

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However, the policy stated that land should remain a fundamental economic enterprise
source In New England, the independent yeoman farmer was still present.

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Most of them settled across North America. However, they turned to cash crop
cultivation. New England also switched to meat products specifically for exports.

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Further, the policies turned the middle colonies into principle grain producers

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For instance, by 1700, Philadelphia managed to export at least 350,000 bushels of wheat.

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Other territories, which were also forced by the policies to engage in cash crop system,
were the Southern colonies, including South Carolina.

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Like other territories, Maryland and Virginia managed to increase their dependence on
cash crops such as tobacco.

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As the American colonies continue to evolve to commercial agriculture from the initial
subsistence farming, an influential commercial class was instrumental in increasing its
power across the American colonies.

Slavery
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The British Empire was globally known for its policies on the slave trade.

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Most of the American colonies depended on slaves, mainly from Africa.

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Ships and British merchants gained from their slavery supplies and slave trade with the
different American colonies across the Western Hemisphere.

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Research studies indicate that the Empire was leading in terms of the slave trade.

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Controlled almost the entire transatlantic slave trade.

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In Virginia, for instance, the slave population increased to 23,000 from 2,000.

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Slave trade abolishment is clear evidence that the Empire's slavery policy was damaging.

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Slavery became the backbone of the region's large-scale cultivation.

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Slavery took the most vigoro...