Despite some economic benefits of the mercantile system, the American colonists generally disliked it because it
a. forced the South into a one-crop economy.
b. favored the northern over the southern colonies.
c. required American colonists to display a measure of economic initiative and self-sufficiency as they were unable to demonstrate trading in international economic markets.
d. stifled economic initiative and imposed a rankling dependency on British government agents and creditors.
e. forced them to sell their products to other countries at a reduced price.
d
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