Answer:
D) The British Parliament passes laws to harshly punish the American colonies.
Step-by-step explanation:
An exemplar of a tournament set in place by the british parliament was the coercive Acts ( also known as intolerable acts).These laws punished American colonists for their destruction of British tea during the Boston Tea Party. These tournaments included the shutting down of Boston Harbor, paying for the disfigured caused, and pushing the colonists to house British soldiers.These types of tournaments were seen as unjust and unfair by the colonists, helping in their decision to declare independence from Great Britain.