miércoles, 21 de abril de 2010

The Protests

In response to the many taxes, colonists reacted with protest. These protests took many forms, intelectual protests, economic boycotts and violent intimidation. While intellectual and important figures in the colonie's politics protested through intelectual protests like articles in newspapers, commoners opted for economical boycotts refusing to buy anything with tax on it.
A radical named Patrick Henry wanted to write a document called the Virginia Resolve which carriead a number of radical ideas. The Virginia House of Burgeses accepted all but two of these resolves.
Then, two sides in the colonies were started to be formed: The Patriots, against the stamp act, and The Loyalists, favoring the crown.
When violent intimidation arose, these surges were particularly violent in Boston were houses of important loyalists, like the governor's , were rallied and burned , the king started to send troops to stop crowds. 9 colonies sent delegates to the stamp act congress. Members of this congress treated matters such as boycotts and non-importation agreements both of wic threatened the congress. In the end the colonists managed to achieve the withrawal of all taxes with the price that now law gave parlament the right to tax colonists...

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