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What is the Stamp Act? |
This law placed a tax on all paper products in the colonies (legal documents, newspapers and playing cards)Colonist were being taxed without representation. |
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What is the Townshend Acts?
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The British place a Tariff on many of the goods the colonists imported from Britain. (paper, wool, glass, paint and lead |
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Who was Patrick Henry?
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a lawyer from Virginia gave powerful speeches against the Stamp Act
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Son of Liberty?
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-organized protests
-Other groups attacked and threatened Stamp Agents . |
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What did the colonist boycott?
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Goods |
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Samuel Adams and James Otis spoke out about?
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colonists rights
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Mercy Otis Warren?
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Wrote poems, plays and historical writings encouraging people to boycott Tea and other imported items.
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The Daughters of Liberty organized what?
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“spinning bees” to make wool. Also make Liberty Tea to boycott british tea.
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