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American colonists fully accepted the Navigation Acts passed by the British Parliament.

A typical New England household consumed as much as thirty or forty cords of firewood a year, a stack of wood four feet high, four feet wide, and three hundred feet long — better than an acre of forest.

Which of the following put a tax on all kinds of printed materials including newspapers, diplomas, marriages licenses, playing cards, etc?

Potash was made by constructing a huge pile out of the trees that had been felled, burning it, collecting the resulting ash, loading it into a huge iron pot, and heating the ash until it was semimolten.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four “F’s” the colonial economy was based on?

Which state was planned by James Oglethorpe to help poor and endebted people of London resettle in America and to provide a buffer state for South Carolina?

Observing American practices of forestry in 1807, Irish author Isaac Weld wrote that Americans had an “unconquerable aversion to …”

What was the fuel used to smelt iron ore in America throughout the eighteenth century and the first three decades of the nineteenth?

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When glucose is broken down by glycolysis during  yeast fermentation, how many ATP are generated?