Under the Mercantilist System, the British Government Reserved the Right

question 19

Multiple Choice

Under the mercantilist system, the British government reserved the right to do all of the following regarding the American colonies EXCEPT

• A) prevent the colonies from developing militias.
• B) restrict the passage of lax bankruptcy laws.
• C) nullify any colonial legislation deemed bad for the mercantilist system.
• D) restrain the colonies from printing paper currency.
• E) enumerate products that must be shipped to Britain.

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Standard Error

A measure of the statistical accuracy of an estimate, reflecting the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic.

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Sampling Distribution

The probability distribution of a statistic obtained through a large number of samples drawn from a specific population.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values; a low standard deviation indicates that the values tend to be close to the mean.