Gov Essay 2 - Therese McLay and Ashley Glass Group 16 POS...

Therese McLay and Ashley Glass
Group 16
POS 2041
16 January 2018
The British Colonial System
The British Colonial System was derived from the British political system and shaped
how the British colonies grew in North America. England provided many things for the colonies,
such as economic goods, political system, security, trade, and provided a monetary unit. From all
these things the colonies received from England, the colonies didn’t give much back, except raw
materials, such as timber, tobacco, and cotton, as well as a bigger population and territory. The
British Colonial System was a system that helped grow the British Empire through controlling
colonies with their own political system and other powers, as well as gaining many valuable
assets for their empire.
The British Colonies became a new territory for England in the seventeenth century, but
also became a new land full of opportunities and new resources for colonists. The government in
the colonies was ruled under Britain and all of their laws. Some of these laws included only