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AP U.S. History Exam 2.5. In an effort to control their colonies, the English used which of the following strategies described in the excerpt?
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All right, here's the excerpt.
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[ mumbles ]
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And the question:
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In an effort to control their colonies, the English used
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which of the following strategies described in the excerpt?
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And here are your potential answers.
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Not even 50 years after getting started,
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England's colonies began the transition from doting child
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to unruly teenager. So the motherland came down hard
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to keep all her territories under one roof.
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In an effort to control their colonies, did the English A -
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establish colonies in Southeast Asia?
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Well, Britain did have colonies in Southeast Asia,
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but the Navigation Act was deeply unpopular
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with colonists across the globe,
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as well as other countries suddenly faced with
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restrictions on their trading abilities.
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So that sinks A and B.
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In trying to get their colonies to behave, did the English
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D - decrease colonial reliance on African slave labor?
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Well, African slave labor was quickly becoming an integral part
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of British colonial economies. So the English government
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went to great lengths to make sure that the terrible practice
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stayed afloat. So D's out of the picture, as well.
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Which means the English attempted to rein in their brood
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by C - maintaining imperial and mercantile
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control over the colonies.
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Well, it's easy to forget, especially because the colonies
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quickly took on lives of their own, but the purpose of
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colonization in the first place in the New World was not
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to establish a new country. From the first settlement
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in Jamestown, England was firmly focused on what
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monetary gain the colonies could provide.
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The British colonists, however, had very little patience for this
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parental supervision and it wasn't long before that one
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colonial zit turned into a revolutionary breakout.
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[ crowd yells ]
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