One way that the british government carried out
the policy of mercantilism was by
(1) promoting free trade between its colonies
and europe
(2) prohibiting the transatlantic trade in enslaved
africans
(3) encouraging the development of colonial
manufacturing and trade
(4) requiring that most colonial trade occur within
the british empire

One way that the British government carried out the policy of mercantilism was by (4) requiring that most colonial trade occur within the British empire. This was the basic policy of colonial mercantilism, where colonies such as the United States could only trade with Great Britain, and was banned from trading with other colonial superpowers, such as the Netherlands, France and Spain.

Starvation, debt, financial downfall.