According to economic structuralists, the Stamp Act and the Navigation Acts were examples of
A) trade provisions aimed at giving firms in the colonizing country an advantage over those in the colony.
B) investment policies that gave an advantage to businesses in the colonial territories.
C) burdensome economic policies that cost England's treasury dearly and eventually encouraged them to free the American colonies.
D) important trade subsidies that allowed the American colonies' enterprises to grow rapidly.

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Economic structuralists argue that the purpose of the Stamp Act and the Navigation Acts was to give British firms an advantage over their colonial counterparts in trade. The Stamp Act required colonists to purchase and affix stamps on legal documents, newspapers, and other printed materials, which could only be purchased from official British distributors. The Navigation Acts regulated trade in colonial goods, requiring them to be shipped on British ships and sold only to British markets, thus limiting the ability of colonial entrepreneurs to compete with British traders. These policies were seen as examples of mercantilism, a system designed to benefit the mother country at the expense of the colonies.

According to Economic Structuralists, the Stamp Act and the Navigation