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Why did England institute the writs of assistance?

to require the colonists to assist new immigrants in getting settled
to force the colonists to pay for the French and Indian War
to allow officials to enter the colonists' homes
to find smuggled goods to demand that the colonists trade only with the mother country

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to force the collonist to pay
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Answer:

to find smuggled goods

Step-by-step explanation:

The writs of assistance were documents that worked as a general warrant order for British officers on merchant boats or buildings, they could enter and search any building and boats were they thought that they were hidding smuggled goods. The writs of assistance were stated by the Governor of Massachusetts in 1760, as a response to the trading of the american colonies with the French and other trade-forbidden empires.

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