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How did a writ of assistance work?
 
  A) It helped colonial merchants cut through the red tape of imperial trade regulations.
  B) It allowed the British to search a colonial merchant's house where smuggled goods were suspected, without requiring proof or probable cause, and seize any items found.
  C) It required prosecutors to present evidence of probable cause for suspicion of smuggling in requesting a search warrant.
  D) It required that specified colonial products be landed in Britain before being shipped to other countries.
  E) It required that colonial commerce agents provide subsidies to merchants engaged in trade outside the British Empire.

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Why did Pontiac's War occur?
 
  A) The British stopped distributing food, ammunition and other gifts to the Indians, as the French had done, and colonists were moving onto Native American lands.
  B) The British had abandoned their western forts to the French, who were abusive toward the Native Americans there.
  C) The colonial government of Virginia had been pressuring Iroquois tribes to move west so that white settlement could expand.
  D) Some Indian tribes objected to the alliance that had been formed with the Spanish.
  E) African-American slaves in South Carolina began to fear the loss of status to Indian indentured servants.



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Answer to Question 1

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