The passage of English restrictions on trade encouraged colonial merchants to?

Question

A: organize political resistance in the British Parliament.

B: find ways to smuggle and otherwise evade the law by trading with other countries.

C: turn to domestic trade within the colonies.

D: turn from trading to such other enterprises as fishing and manufacturing.

Answer 1

D.  Drink heavily and beat their wives.  Like the Irish do today.

Answer 2

B

Answer 3

C:

Anything the colonies didn't ship for England was traded amongst themselves. Which is why, interstate commerce was such an issue during the Articles of Confederation.

Answer 4

Ans is B. John Hancock ( signer of Declaration of Independance) was a major smuggler.