When the First Continental Congress passed resolutions requiring colonies to raise their own troops and boycott British trade, the British response was which of the following?
A. They understood it and went along.
B. They condemned Congress's actions and treated them as acts of rebellion.
C. They immediately put high tariffs on French and Spanish goods coming into the colonies.
D. They brought in troops to end the meetings of the First Continental Congress.
E. They withheld all funding for colonial legislatures.
Answer: B
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