SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Took away the colonists right to elect a legislature because the legislature had been plotting a rebellion
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Allowed the colonists to elect their governor but not to elect a legislature because English government didn’t want to give the colonists too much power
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Allowed the colonists to have an elected legislature because the colonists demanded it
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -England seized de facto control of the colony from the Dutch in 1664, and was given de jure sovereign control in 1667 in the Treaty of Breda and again in the Treaty of Westminster (1674). It was not until 1674 that English common law was applied in the colony.
Detailed explanation-2: -New York Colony was a royal colony under the Dutch, and when the British first took over, it was a proprietary colony, but it, later, became a royal colony.
Detailed explanation-3: -Britain and the Imperial Crises The Imperial Crises of the 1760s and 1770s, found England saddled with crippling debt, incurred in large part by wars such as the French and Indian War. The British government responded by increasing taxes on the American colonists, which drove the colonies toward greater unity.
Detailed explanation-4: -The British government’s position was that Parliament’s authority was unlimited, while the American position was that colonial legislatures were coequal with Parliament and outside of its jurisdiction.