Base your answers to questions 4-6 on the excerpt below and your knowledge of social studies.
"As the American colonies continued to develop in the eighteenth century, Britain placed
increasing restriction on American manufactures to protect its growing domestic industries. No
products were expressly forbidden, but the size of markets was limited and the building of new
factories and mills for producing certain goods was forbidden.
Had these acts been enforced, they would have severely impacted the developing economies
of the North American colonies."
John Steele Gordon, historian,
The Epic History of American Economic Power, published in 2004.
Which of the following developments explains why the colonists demonstrated resistance to the act described