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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by british troops and by troops We

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need the kind that do stuff Not those guards that

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stay frozen no matter what kind of faces you make

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in front of them And boy have we made some

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weird faces Just stand there staring All right check out

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the image Right Here's little calling thing and here's our

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question The goals presented in the image have the most

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in common with which of the following legislative developments And

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here you potential answers Okay well the image broadcast loud

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and clear that the dominion of new england was all

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about domination by old england All right Well the seal

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shows two new world guys grovel ing before the king

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it's not trying to be subtle option b tries to

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convince us that the declaration of independence has the most

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in common with this But well that's a crazy idea

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The declaration did the exact opposite by declaring that the

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colonies were free from britain and didn't have to bow

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to anybody anymore which had the unexpected benefit of saving

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a bundle of money on knee pads All right choice

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Is talking about the boston port act which was both

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a way of trying to get the columnist to be

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cave and punishing them for the damages and warlord general

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humiliation of the boston tea party You know that time

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when the columnist broke onto a ship and checked a

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bunch of tea into the harbor all wild dresses american

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indians an act that really ticked off england and would

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have ticked off the native american anti defamation league gift

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there had been one Anyway we can see how you

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could argue that the boston port act was similar to

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the establishment of the dominion of new england since they

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were both about the british crown flexing its muscles But

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the boston port act wasn't nearly a sweeping as the

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dominion We figured there's probably a better answer here and

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that answer is not d the quartering act of seventeen

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sixty five did have the british government exercising power over

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the colonists but it's also not quite a big enough

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deal Also it was a practical way of taking care

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of british troops in the most affordable way possible Couchsurfing

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saving brits money since seventeen sixty five that means see

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is our correct answer Like the dominion of new england

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the navigation acts gave britain broad control over the colony's

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Restricting all foreign shipping was kind of a big deal

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and it made the columnist so mad they chewed on

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their powdered wigs or whatever it is people did back

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then when they were mad Oh and where do the

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wise those stone faced soldiers don't get mad if you

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chew on their hats Not that we've ever tried that 00:02:21.683 --> [endTime] or anything Yummy

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