Unites the 13 colonies against a common enemy for the first time ever

a-french and indiana war
b-proclamation of 1763
c-the sugar act 1764
d-the stamp act 1765
e-the townshend 1767
f-the boston massacre march 5, 1770
g-tea act 1773
h-the boston tea party december 17, 1773
i-intolerable acts 1774
j-continental congress 1774

c. the passage of the fifteenth amendment

1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.

collect the tariff by force if necessary

use the military to enforce a federal law

b and c

d. it was created with the idea that it could be easily revised if it was ineffective