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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by new england where people have more

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miles on their snow blowers than they do on their

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cars All right check the following image seal of the

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dominion of new england And now for our question the

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image most directly reflects which of britain's goals for the

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north american colonies and hear your pencil answers are in

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the violent conflict International trade publicans Okay so what does

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this picture tell us Well we have a colonist and

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a native american kneeling before the king Also we have

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a naked cherub flapping above him Does this mean king

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of england had an army of cherubs that force native

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americans and columnist to do his will Kind of like

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the wicked witch of the west had flying monkeys focusing

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on this whole kneeling thing will probably help us out

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a lot more here Like how it lets us nick's

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Answer See republicanism is based on the idea that the

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people should have the power to rule themselves A picture

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of some guy's sucking up to a king doesn't exactly

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reinforce this idea In fact the establishment of the dominion

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of new england was away for the british crown to

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tightness reigns on the increasingly disgruntled american colonists option a

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claims that the seal reflects britain's goal of ending violence

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with the american indians as faras we can tell though

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the steel projects the idea that there would have only

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been peace with the american indians if they learned to

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kneel and bring the king his tasty new world treats

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Most of the tribes weren't into that idea and it

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wasn't a major british goal to get what they wanted

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from the american indians peacefully Not that there's really any

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peaceful way to steal land but it's a separate story

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All right the british crown also wasn't into the idea

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of colonist Getting too chummy with other countries is choice

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be tries to convince us in fact britain cut the

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colonies off completely from international trade and you say a

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control freak so in cross that big option d is

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the right answer here The truth is that britain was

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facing he's a troubled time Not only were the new

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england colony is becoming increasingly difficult to rule but also

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the competition for power with european rivals like spain was

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Heating up britain's reaction to this sticky situation No introducing

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the dominion of new england which streamline the colonies into

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a single imperial political structure The colonists weren't thrilled and

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the introduction of a seal with a smiling colonial kneeling

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before the king didn't exactly sell it to them So

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if the naked cherub didn't do it well nothing would 00:02:30.19 --> [endTime] have

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