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... Hello, and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

This week, episode 338, Adams goes to London.

This week, we're going to take a look at diplomatic relations

between the U.S. and Europe after the Revolutionary War. The big issue for the United States

was trade. Under the colonial system, major powers generally allowed only trade between

their own colonies and the mother country. This was known as mercantilism.

Trade rules were regularly set up to benefit the mother country who got a monopoly on raw materials

from the colonies and had a monopoly selling finished goods back to them. When the American colonies

had been part of the British system, they were free to

trade within that system. As independent states, Britain had largely cut them out of trade.

British ships still came to America with goods to sell, but Britain largely blocked or placed

heavy tariffs on American exports to Britain. During the years leading up to the Revolutionary War,

British merchants, upset by various trade boycotts by the colonies, began finding other sources

for raw materials and were able to operate largely without American resources. Many officials in

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