Which quote helps establish "A Call Loan" by O. Henry as an example of Regionalism? At nine o'clock that night Tom Merwin stepped cautiously out of the small frame house in which he lived.
He succeeded in making the banker understand that he stood upon the border of a catastrophe.
Luck and thrift, a cool head, and a telescopic eye for mavericks had raised him from cowboy to be a cowman.
At the end of it all the examiner put on his hat, and called the president. . . .

Luck and thrift, a cool head, and a telescopic eye for mavericks had raised him from cowboy to be a cowman.

Explanation:

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the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.