THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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The Daughters of Liberty began encouraging colonists to begin making their own products and boycotting British goods.
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The Sons of Liberty began encouraging colonists to begin making their own products and boycotting British goods.
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The colonists began tarring and feathering tax collectors while burning effigies of King George III.
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None of these answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Colonists organized boycotts of British goods to pressure Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts. As British customs officials arrived to collect taxes and prosecute smugglers, colonial opposition intensified, resulting in street demonstrations and protests that sometimes turned violent.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main task of the Daughters of Liberty was to protest the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts through aiding the Sons of Liberty in boycotts and non-importation movements prior to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.
Detailed explanation-3: -Like the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts produced controversy and protest in the American colonies. For a second time, many colonists resented what they perceived as an effort to tax them without representation and thus to deprive them of their liberty.