According to the Colonists, What Did the American Board of Customs

question 29

Multiple Choice

According to the colonists, what did the American Board of Customs Commissioners do?

• A) It pursued a program that was little more than a system of legalized piracy.
• B) It functioned only if the British government furnished the funds needed to pay the commissioners.
• C) It offered a more efficient and equitable method of collecting customs because it was an American, rather than a British, commission.
• D) It was made up of treasonous Tories who should have been hanged in the town square.
• E) It was hampered in defending merchant John Hancock because of British regulations.

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