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Which tactic did Charles Townshend use to increase British control of the American colonies?

He drew a new boundary between French and English colonies.

He established new trade measures and prohibitions.

He created new taxes on the American colonists to raise revenue.

He formed new peace treaties with Indigenous tribes.

One reason southern plantation owners wanted to stop using indentured servants is because

colonists in New England wanted to ban the practice.

there were too many indentured servants in the Americas.

plantation owners thought freed servants posed a threat.

there were laws put in place that freed indentured servants.

Who organized the government in the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies?

the English Parliament

the king of England

adult male colonists only

all adult colonists

William Pitt the Elder thought that the British government

was right to pass the Townshend Acts.

should make the colonies pay for wars.

was taxing the colonies too harshly.

should periodically raise colonial taxes.

Which best describes the Albany Plan of Union?

It was a failed plan to unite the American colonies.

It was a failed plan to eliminate the colonists’ right to vote.

It was a failed plan to strengthen individual colonial governments.

It was a failed plan to make the colonies independent from Britain.

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