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What event is frequently linked with the end of the policy of salutary neglect?
What event is frequently linked with the end of the policy of salutary neglect?
- The conclusion of the French and Indian War (correct)
- The passing of the Currency Act
- The imposition of the Sugar Act
- The issuing of the Stamp Act
What was the purpose of the Stamp Act?
What was the purpose of the Stamp Act?
- To regulate the issuing of paper money in the New England colonies
- To end the smuggling of sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies
- To raise revenue through direct taxation of colonial commercial and legal papers (correct)
- To suspend the New York Assembly and collect revenue duties
What was the purpose of the Townshend Acts?
What was the purpose of the Townshend Acts?
- To regulate trade and recoup the costs of defending the colonies with British forces
- To raise revenue and attempt to end the smuggling of sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies
- To reassert the British government’s authority over the colonies through the suspension of the New York Assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties (correct)
- To severely curtail the issuing of paper money in the New England colonies
