Read the passage and answer the question below. “The metropolitan efforts to complete this British imperial hierarchy at the centre and to export it abroad, so as to forge ‘an entire interactive system,' were never a complete success [and] the American colonists eventually rejected the whole thing outright . . . [The British imperial] hierarchical world-view that was extended across the British empire was conservative in its ideology, and stressed the importance of tradition and unchangingness . . . the elaborate, layered social ordering of the American colonies was, at the mid-eighteenth century, a relatively recent development.”
-Source: David Cannadine, historian, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire, 2002
Which of the following evidence would best support the author’s argument in the excerpt?
Choose 1
Choose 1

(Choice A)
A
The British government created a coherent, hierarchical structure in its colonies to pursue its mercantilist economic aims.

(Choice B)
B
The British government created an imperial structure of government similar to the encomienda system in colonial Spain

(Choice C)
C
The British government created a unique parliamentary structure in the colonies that used the system of virtual representation

(Choice D)
D
The British government strictly enforced its policies to fully control the methods of production in the American colonies.

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