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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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[ musical flourish ]
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by colonial resistance,
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a growing protest movement amongst architecture students.
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All right, give this excerpt a look.
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[ mumbles ]
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All right, that was the Navigation Acts.
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And the question:
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Which of the following had the greatest impact on colonial resistance
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to the Navigation Acts?
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And here are your potential answers.
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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.
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When colonists discovered that sugar and rum
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would either become more expensive
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or entirely unavailable,
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things suddenly soured between the motherland and its
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colonial no-longer-sweethearts.
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So was this growing resistance to the Navigation Acts
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further impacted by B -
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movement into Western lands? Hmm.
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Well, as colonists moved further inland,
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they started to develop trading relationships with Native Americans,
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but this exploration was relatively separate from issues
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with the Navigation Acts.
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That takes B and C off the market.
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Could colonial resistance to the Navigations Acts have been
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affected by D -
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the strength of the Anglican Church?
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Huh. Well, many of these colonists came to the New World
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to break away from the Anglican Church,
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so they certainly wouldn't have wanted religious officials
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to intercede on their behalf.
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So if colonists weren't praying for D,
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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
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trade restrictions, a little thing called the Enlightenment was
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bringing all kinds of crazy ideas about liberty to the Western world.
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Encouraged by these new philosophies, colonists
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joined together to resist the renewal of the Navigation Acts.
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So the answer is A.
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Despite their varied religious backgrounds, colonists
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quickly found ways to navigate their differences,
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facing the sea of British trade restrictions in a...
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united state.
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[ woo! ]
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