Why Did Colonizers Use Taxation on Subject Peoples

question 24

Multiple Choice

Why did colonizers use taxation on subject peoples?

• A)It forced them into a market economy.
• B)It made them more dependent on the colonizers.
• C)It kept them from subsistence production and forced them to work for the colonizers to obtain wages.
• D)It made them carry some of the burden of paying for the colony.
• E)All of these statements are correct.

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