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Question 1

bacon’s rebellion 1676

Answer 1

armed rebellion un Virginia against Governor William Berkley, who had the support of the British government. forces from England came ti Virginia to suppress the resistance and reform the colonial government to one that was more directly under royal control.

Question 2

Leisler’s rebellion 1689

Answer 2

rebellion against royal officials representing the Dominion of New England. led by Jacob Leisler, a German merchant in New York. leisler was executed when he refused to surrender to a royal governor.

Question 3

wool act 1699

Answer 3

english law that made it illegal to ship wool from the american colonies. the law was designed to assisr the British wool industry.

Question 4

molasses act 1733

Answer 4

a British law that established a tax on imports of molasses, sugar, and rum from non-british colonies. the law was loosely enforced and New England imported great quantities of West Indian sugar for manufacturing rum.

Question 5

smuggling

Answer 5

as a wat of ignoring british restrictions on colonial trade, colonists engaged in widespread smuggling. smugglers whi got caught were often freed by sympathetic american juries.

Question 6

Navigation acts 1651-1696

Answer 6

attempt by England to assert its control over American trade by passing a series of laws that regulated colonial trade to England’s benefit.

Question 7

salutary neglect

Answer 7

unofficial British policy of law-enforcement of trade laws. Salutary neglect lasted throughout most of the 1600s and 1700s