discussion 2

1) What was the role of the colonies in the British mercantilist system? 

2) Why did Britain switch to a Southern military strategy? Why did that strategy ultimately fail? 

3)Why did women's issues suddenly become so prominent in American culture? 

4) How did the abolitionists proposals and methods differ from those of earlier antislavery movements? Why did those proposals and methods arouse such hostility in the South and in the North?