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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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All right A pushers Here's the paragraph of the navigation

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act of that we're going to read or think about

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questions Blah blah blah being angry with the parliament mouth

00:15

already men And they have December thing whom Ford No

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goods Commodities whenever growing manufacture of age or any part

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

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over the Collins That was the primary purpose of the

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NAM back Alright well the wrong answers Passing the knave

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axe was a necessary step for the English to keep

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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

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thought they could make the columnist jealous of the attention

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they were paying to other colony So get rid of

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A and reliance on slave labor was climbing steadily at

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this point and it was profitable so the English had

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no desire to reduce it Like where'd that come from

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Get rid of deep answer Here is C control C 00:01:39.33 --> [endTime] is in control

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