Question

Seven Years' War "Niagara at most should be my furthest Post in that quarter ... By this Means we may keep up a Trade with the most distant Nations, retain their good Opinion, and totally prevent any Jealousy of our intending them any ill. . . . As we increase in Numbers on this Continent, it's easy and Safe to advance our settlements in Townships, though this I would do only by Cession or by Purchase of the Lands to prevent the Shadow of an Excuse for the Indians to quarrel with us." -Source: Colonel William Eyre, as printed in The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775, 1764 The ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly from a larger debate over British Parliament's decision to: Choose 1 answer: B A tax British-made goods, making them more expensive for the colonists. force neighboring indigenous nations to convert to Christianity. limit westward expansion beyond the Appalachian Mountains.​

Answer 1

Limit westward expansion beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

Step-by-step explanation:

They didn't want to anger the Native people, so the British promised that the colonists would not expand beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Unfortunately, the colonists did not listen, and they expanded beyond the mountains anyway.