The King might have ignored the colonists petitions for redress because he believed he was well within his authority to impose the imperial policies that the British were imposing on the colonists. Additionally the British believed that they had protected and taken care of the colonists in a number of wars and therefore deserved to be paid through taxes for the services they had provided. In addition the King had numerous other colonies and wanted to prevent any of the colonies from believing they had the ability or right for self government.
I believe that the answer to this question is Syria.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Societal norms were challenged and contributed to the Palmer Raids and McCarthyism and the Red Scare in that people believed in what the government said. In those years -1919 and 1920- the idea that Communism and anarchism were two of the worst things that could happen to the United States, really sacred the US society. People firmly believed in the status quo, in the conservationist social norms that have been served the US to maintain certain peace and stability. People feared that anarchism and Communism could challenge the American Way.
That is why the US Department of Justice conducted the Palmer Raids of 1919, to arrest and deport Communists that could threaten the stability of the US. The same happened when Wisconsin Republican Senator, Joseph McCarthy accused that federal government officials and members of the military had ties with Communists groups, in what was known as the McCarthyism, in the 1940s.
Poll taxes means you have to pay a tax before allowed to vote. That's a way of preventing poor persons (like blacks in the South) from voting.
Literacy tests would require persons to pass certain standards of reading and writing in order to qualify for voting. Again, such methods were aimed at blacks, who had not had access to the same education as whites.
Jim Crow laws were all sorts of segregation laws aimed at keeping blacks in "their place" and away from places where white society did not want them to be.
All such measures were used to promote segregation and limit the rights of blacks. So the answer that doesn't fit is "crop subsidies," which would be payments made to assist farmers.
