The answer is D.Race and ethnicity
It was not a ‘British’ reaction - there was divided opinion in Britain as to how to respond and even in Parliament there were some who were in sympathy with the growing colonial resistance to British taxes. The Prime Minister was not one of them. The Stamp Act was an attempt to recover some of the great cost that the French and Indian War had incurred. The Intolerable Acts were a response to the resistance that the Stamp Act had met with. The Stamp Acts was a tax intended to revenue. The intolerable Acts were intended to curtail the growing resistance- by the time of the Intolerable Acts legislation was no longer focused on raising revenue but was focused on the resistance that trying to raise revenue had met with
