The correct answer is "British Imperialism".
The US colonies operated under British economic principles. Therefore, residents from the colonies lived and worked under these codes. This would naturally produce a learning process in which the residents from the colonies new how the British Empire was governed. During the events that led to American Independence, this knowledge about the British would serve as a cognitive base from which US citizens would produce their own "set of rules" to govern the newly formed country of The United States.
