Which of the following illustrated the determination of colonial merchants and traders to develop a capitalist economic system in the American colonies in the early-mid 1700s?
A) following the strict manufacturing and trading contours outlined by the Triangle Trading system
B) circumventing the Navigation Acts of 1650 and 1660 by finding legal loopholes or trading raw materials and goods in a different direction than British laws allowed to maximize trading revenues
C) refraining from manufacturing goods in the colonies to protect the economic interests of British producers in England
D) producing and exporting only raw materials that would enrich England exclusively and not benefit any other imperial European power or non-British colony
Answer: B
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