Reviewed by Michael J Boyle What Is Mercantilism? Mercantilism is an economic policy designed to increase a nation's wealth through exports. It thrived in Great Britain between the 16th and 18th ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Students at Challenger Middle School ... during their annual Colonial Recruitment Fair. At the fair, students presented the perks of their colonies based on in-depth ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

Maryland, 1664: The first colonial "anti-amalgamation" law is enacted (amalgamation referred to "race-mixing"). Other colonies soon followed Maryland's example. A 1691 Virginia law declared that ...