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AP U.S. History Exam 2.8. Which of the following had the greatest impact on colonial resistance to the Navigation Acts?

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00:00

[ musical flourish ]

00:03

And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by colonial resistance,

00:06

a growing protest movement amongst architecture students.

00:11

All right, give this excerpt a look.

00:12

[ mumbles ]

00:19

All right, that was the Navigation Acts.

00:20

And the question:

00:21

Which of the following had the greatest impact on colonial resistance

00:25

to the Navigation Acts?

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And here are your potential answers.

00:29

Hmm. All right, well, different kind of "acts." Get that out of here.

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[ mumbles ]

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All right, here we go.

00:37

When colonists discovered that sugar and rum

00:40

would either become more expensive

00:42

or entirely unavailable,

00:44

things suddenly soured between the motherland and its

00:47

colonial no-longer-sweethearts.

00:50

So was this growing resistance to the Navigation Acts

00:53

further impacted by B -

00:55

movement into Western lands? Hmm.

00:59

Well, as colonists moved further inland,

01:01

they started to develop trading relationships with Native Americans,

01:04

but this exploration was relatively separate from issues

01:07

with the Navigation Acts.

01:09

That takes B and C off the market.

01:12

Could colonial resistance to the Navigations Acts have been

01:15

affected by D -

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the strength of the Anglican Church?

01:19

Huh. Well, many of these colonists came to the New World

01:22

to break away from the Anglican Church,

01:24

so they certainly wouldn't have wanted religious officials

01:27

to intercede on their behalf.

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So if colonists weren't praying for D,

01:31

the source of colonial resistance to the Navigation Acts

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must have been A - evolving ideas of liberty.

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Well, around the same time colonists started kvetching over

01:42

trade restrictions, a little thing called the Enlightenment was

01:45

bringing all kinds of crazy ideas about liberty to the Western world.

01:49

Encouraged by these new philosophies, colonists

01:51

joined together to resist the renewal of the Navigation Acts.

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So the answer is A.

01:56

Despite their varied religious backgrounds, colonists

01:58

quickly found ways to navigate their differences,

02:00

facing the sea of British trade restrictions in a...

02:03

united state.

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[ woo! ]

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