The quote most clearly supports an argument in favor of British officials and the Coercive Acts. Lord North is expressing the need for a stronger response to the actions of the American colonists, which aligns with the rationale behind the Coercive Acts (also known as the Intolerable Acts) that were implemented to enforce British authority following colonial resistance.
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"The Americans have tarred and feathered your subjects, plundered your merchants, burnt your ships, denied all obedience to your laws and authority; yet so clement and so long forbearing has our conduct been that it is incumbent on us now to take a different course. Whatever may be the consequences, we must risk something; if we do not, all is over." —Lord North
This quote most clearly supports an argument in favor of what?
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• British officials and the Coercive Acts
• Native Americans and the Proclamation Line
• Parliament and the Declaratory Act
• Sons of Liberty and the Boston Tea
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