1. what did the writs of assistance do? lowered taxes discouraged resettlement prevented smuggling taxed paper goods 2. how were the revolutionary efforts of thomas paine and samuel adams most alike? both wrote in support of the revolutionary cause. both served as leaders in the continental army. both were influential in the sons of liberty. both were imprisoned by the british for their actions.

1- The Writs of Assistance prevented smuggling.

2- Both Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams wrote in support of the Revolutionary cause.

Explanation:

1- The Writ of Assistance, a general warrant for search or hand-waving, is a privileged procedure instituted in England since the 1650s under Oliver Cromwell, according to which the customs officers had the right of search everywhere in Britain and its colonies for contrabanded goods.

In the 1760s, which saw the creation of the Sugar Act after the Seven Years' War, London decided to activate this procedure. It was to resist the Writs of Assistance that the traders of Boston, big importers of molasses of Santo Domingo for their distilleries, recruited in 1761 the public prosecutor James Otis to attack this procedure justice, which led to a progressive criticism English protectionism strong enough to trigger the American war of independence.

2- Thomas Paine was an American politician, writer, philosopher, radical intellectual and revolutionary, promoter of liberalism and democracy. His main contributions were the widely read Common Sense essay (1776), where he advocated the independence of the colonies and The American crisis (1776-1783) a series of writings in favor of the revolution.

Samuel Adams was a great promoter of American independence, and possibly due to him the Boston Tea Party, which fought to overthrow the tea monopoly held by the British metropolis, took place. His persecution gave rise to the first skirmish of the War of Independence, and Samuel Adams rendered valiant service to the cause of the rebel colonies.

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