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Q: Who were the group of colonists who exchanged letters on colonial affairs?
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What effect did the Townshend Act have on the question of colonial unity?

TheTownshend act's: Import taxes on lead, paper, tea, paint, and glass were collected at port. Revenue from the Townshend duties were used to support British troops, royal governors, and royal judges, taking the power of the purse away from colonial assemblies. The Townshend Acts also created a customs commission and suspended the New York assembly for failing to comply with the act. The act created many boycotts and with "Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania," being published in nine colonial news papers, which raised awareness to those colonies.


What had the colonists done to try to persuade the british to change their policies?

Colonist did only one thing to get the British to change their policies. The only thing they did was write the British letters.


Did all of the colonists approve of what happened at the tea party Why?

No, they were divided about it. The colonists were all English and loyal to the king so action against the king was considered treason. We have the impression that ALL the people in the colonies were ready to revolt. Not true. Washington was against the tea party and made statements about it in letters and to others.


What did printers in colonial times do and how?

mainly a colonial printer would print books, newspapers, posters, anything. printing was a difficult process in which the printer would arrange letters on a printing press, cover them with ink, and, well, press.


What taxes were imposed on the 13 colonies in the 1760s and the 1770s?

the big ones were the stamp act which made all of the people in the colonies pay a tax on letters to pay for the french-indian war which the colonies were not even a part of. The other one was when the british taxed tea. The tea taxes went up so much that the main supplyer of tea 4 the colonies had to make their own prices go way up. The colonies then started buying black market tea imported from the netherlands instead of the British East Indian tea company. Then they company drastically dropped their prices do to nobody buying the tea, but the colonists thought they were being minipulated and the british were rying to take away jobs from the colonists so they had the boston tea party.

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How did committees of correspondence help keep people informed?

Exchanged letters on colonial affairs.


How did the committees of correspondence help keep people informed?

Exchanged letters on colonial affairs.


What ways did the colonists share information during the colonial era?

They wrote letters and had meetings. This was one of the questions on my socail studies test and I got it right.


What are letters of credit that could be exchanged for cash in Muslim banks?

sakks


What is a runny babbitt?

That would be a "bunny rabbit" with the first letters of each word exchanged.


Where did Abigail Adams lived when she exchanged letters with john Adams?

she lived in Quincy ,massachussets


Who became Napoleon's wife and exchanged with him a famous series of love letters?

Empress Josephine.


What were some colonial responses to the stamp act?

In answer to this act, the colonies made up a group called the Stamp Act Congress. This group protested and sent letters to the King, and the Parliament


Who became Napoleon's first wife and exchanged with him a famous series of love letters?

Empress Josephine.


How did colonial people communicate without a phone?

Letters.


How do you spell coresspondance?

The correct spelling is correspondence (exchanged letters, or a correlation between items).


Unscramble a Thanksgiving words -tooclsnsi?

Those letters spell colonists.