Question 1

What was the practice of Salutary Neglect?

Accepted Answer

The British did not enforce their laws strictly on the colonists

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Many moms in England let their children raise themselves

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Army soldiers disobeyed their direct superiors

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Rich merchants decided to ignore trade laws and taxes

Question 2

What was the end result of Salutary Neglect?

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It allowed colonists to become further steeped in self-government

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Many people moved to California to escape the chaos

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It made the colonists content with British rule

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Colonists turned to France for political assistance

Question 3

Which definition best describes Mercantilism?

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The economic belief that a country becomes more powerful by having more money

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Undersea life being destroyed by building ship yards in shallow harbors

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The expectation that you will make more money if you graduate from college

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A new way of paving roads that made mail delivery more efficient

Question 4

Taking raw materials from other countries to make into new products and sell for gold or silver is -

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the goal of Mercantilism

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essentially a highway robbery of poor underdeveloped nations

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a romanticized version of being the "middle man" outlawed in 1889

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a forbidden practice by Britain during the Colonization Era

Question 5

The factors listed above contributed most to the -

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growth of representative government in the British colonies

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creation of alliances between British settlers and American Indians

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election of British colonists to Parliament

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expansion of British trade in the Americas

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