week 9 - the townshend acts

Question 1

what did the third act establish?

Answer 1

strict and often arbitrary machinery of customs collection in the american colonies, including additional officers, searchers, spies, coast guard vessels, search warrants, writs of assistance, and a board of customs commissioners at boston, all to be financed out of customs revenues.

Question 2

how much did franklin estimate the duties would raise?

Answer 2

approximately 40,000 pounds, with most of the revenue coming from tea

Question 3

how many troops had arrived in boston by 1769 and why?

Answer 3

2,000

to restore order—a large number considering only about 16,000 people lived in boston at the time.

Question 4

massachusetts circular letter

Answer 4

of the 120 members of the massachusetts house, 92 refuse to rescind this circular letter and their action inspires john dickinson to once again take up his pen—this time to write a new song to the words of an old british military tune.

the liberty song is printed on ballad sheets and sung throughout the colonies in a show of mutual support for resistance.

Question 5

why did loyalists support the townshend acts?

Answer 5

soldiers were there to protect the colonies

Question 6

quartering act

Answer 6

colonists had to provide candles, beer and firewood - imported beer was expensive

Question 7

sir henry moore

Answer 7

ny governor refused to acknowledge the army’s need or existence of the statute