What role did mercantilism affect the growth of colonies in the americas

The ideas of mercantilism inspired all the oppressive legislation parliament issued in colonial times including the sugar act and the stamp act. they were to force the colonists to trade solely with great Britain.

The overall effect though, I would say, would be the revolution.

It developed as a reaction to the impact of european colonialism in africa on peoples of african descent. in the  mid-20th century, activists in africa adopted pan-africanism as a rallying cry for independence from colonial rule. some african pan-africanists sought to unite the continent as one independenthope it was useful