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Which of the following strategies described in the excerpt was used by the English in an effort to control the colonies?
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- 00:07
All right A pushers Here's the paragraph of the navigation
- 00:10
act of that we're going to read or think about
- 00:12
questions Blah blah blah being angry with the parliament mouth
- 00:15
already men And they have December thing whom Ford No
- 00:18
goods Commodities whenever growing manufacture of age or any part
Full Transcript
- 00:21
thereof blind him to describe your laid down the usual
- 00:23
number of places British validation of the Commonwealth of England
- 00:26
Ireland and remarry So question which of the following strategies
- 00:30
described in the excerpt was used by the English in
- 00:33
an effort to control the colonies ready Well even though
- 00:40
the colony's established their own identities and took on political
- 00:43
structures of their own The major purpose of colonization in
- 00:46
the New World wasn't to create a new country Since
- 00:49
the first settlement at Jamestown England had focused on how
- 00:53
the colonies could benefit Mother England economically And it wasn't
- 00:56
about to let those advantages slip away without a fight
- 01:00
Anyway The answer is C maintaining mercantile or commercial control
- 01:04
over the Collins That was the primary purpose of the
- 01:06
NAM back Alright well the wrong answers Passing the knave
- 01:09
axe was a necessary step for the English to keep
- 01:11
the colony's under control but it was as unpopular with
- 01:15
other countries as it was with the colonist So get
- 01:17
rid of B and establishing colonies in Southeast Asia wouldn't
- 01:20
have helped control the American colonies Not unless the British
- 01:23
thought they could make the columnist jealous of the attention
- 01:25
they were paying to other colony So get rid of
- 01:27
A and reliance on slave labor was climbing steadily at
- 01:31
this point and it was profitable so the English had
- 01:33
no desire to reduce it Like where'd that come from
- 01:36
Get rid of deep answer Here is C control C 00:01:39.33 --> [endTime] is in control
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