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American Colonists Responded to the Various Coercive Colonial Laws Enacted

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American colonists responded to the various coercive colonial laws enacted by Parliament in the late 1760s and enforced by British colonial authorities in all of the following ways EXCEPT


A) they convened the Stamp Act Congress to address their political and economic grievances to the king and Parliament including calling for the repeal of the Stamp Act.
B) they visibly protested paying any duties required by these coercive colonial laws, including the famous Boston Tea Party, in an effort to force their repeal and regain a measure of economic independence from Britain.
C) they rejected the assertion need to fund a British army in the colonies.
D) they engaged in a violent campaign of attacks against British soldiers and customs agents in major Atlantic seaboard cities.
E) they protested and publicly assailed the use of admiralty courts to try colonial violators of the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act.

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