Mercantilism motivated Britain to colonize North America because the British believed that colonies could help the British economy. The British used the colonies to acquire raw materials and as a market for British exports. How was Great Britain able to control the developing colonies through mercantilist policies? A.
by forbidding manufacturing in North America and preventing the colonies from competing with British industries

B.
by forcing colonists to settle in inland areas so that the Royal Navy could control all sea traffic on the Atlantic Coast

C.
by encouraging Spanish colonists to compete with British colonists to increase the supply of resources and lower prices

D.
by hiring only American Indian workers so that colonists were forced to work as subsistence farmers and could not acquire great wealth