New England merchants

Target entity: New England merchants
Context triple: [Embargo Act of 1807, opposedBy, New England merchants]

• A. Massachusetts Bay Company
  The Massachusetts Bay Company was a 17th-century English joint-stock company that organized and financed the Puritan settlement and governance of what became the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England.
• B. City of London merchants
  City of London merchants were influential early modern English traders and financiers based in London’s commercial hub, heavily involved in overseas commerce, including colonial and slave-trading enterprises.
• C. Baltimore merchants
  Baltimore merchants were influential 19th-century traders and business leaders whose commercial interests and capital helped drive Baltimore’s early industrial growth and major infrastructure projects.
• D. New Haven Colony
  New Haven Colony was a 17th-century English Puritan settlement in what is now Connecticut, founded as a theocratic community with strict religious and legal codes.
• E. Muscovy Company
  The Muscovy Company was a 16th-century English trading company that pioneered commerce and exploration between England and Russia and helped open northern sea routes.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: New England merchants
Target entity description: New England merchants were early 19th-century American traders and shipowners whose Atlantic commerce and maritime interests made them politically influential and especially sensitive to federal trade restrictions and wartime policies.

• A. Massachusetts Bay Company
  The Massachusetts Bay Company was a 17th-century English joint-stock company that organized and financed the Puritan settlement and governance of what became the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England.
• B. City of London merchants
  City of London merchants were influential early modern English traders and financiers based in London’s commercial hub, heavily involved in overseas commerce, including colonial and slave-trading enterprises.
• C. Baltimore merchants
  Baltimore merchants were influential 19th-century traders and business leaders whose commercial interests and capital helped drive Baltimore’s early industrial growth and major infrastructure projects.
• D. New Haven Colony
  New Haven Colony was a 17th-century English Puritan settlement in what is now Connecticut, founded as a theocratic community with strict religious and legal codes.
• E. Muscovy Company
  The Muscovy Company was a 16th-century English trading company that pioneered commerce and exploration between England and Russia and helped open northern sea routes.
• F. None of above. chosen