Due to an unwritten colonial policy known as salutary neglect, American colonists had become used to relative freedom in their system of trade. Mercantilism is one of the primary factors in colonization, as the colonial country seeks to conquer other lands which provide raw materials for its production and simultaneously become markets for its goods. This was typified in the Atlantic System. Military conquest and the driving out or enslavement of indigenous people is only a small step towards economic, rather than military, domination. (Hence the native people of Africa became captured for slavers as often by their fellow Africans as by the white man, because they were in the process of being economically dominated) Once economic domination is a fact, militaristic power is moot. Native America was, at this point, largely dominated economically by the British. However, the Brits had been transformed in the process to Americans. In the process, the colonies economic loyalties to Britain were being replaced by loyal

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