Which approach did mercantilists encourage european rulers to take toward natural resources in the american colonies?

Exploit them fully to achieve maximum profit for the parent country.

Mercantilists encourage rulers to export finished goods to the American Colonies but to buy from them the much cheaper raw materials, thus provoking a favourable difference in monetary value.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

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