THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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To inquire about why the Dartmouth had not been sent back to London yet
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To inquire about allowing the Dartmouth to stay
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Old South became the center for massive public protest meetings against British actions in colonial Boston from 1768-75. Patriots and Loyalists alike met to argue and inform, to protest the impressment of sailors into the King’s navy, and to commemorate the bloody Boston Massacre of 1770.
Detailed explanation-2: -December 16, 1773: The Boston Tea Party The Patriot leaders asked Rotch to make a final, personal plea to the Governor for permission to leave the harbor without unloading the tea.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some 5, 000 angry colonists gathered at Old South to protest a tax on tea. When the negotiations failed, disguised men took action and destroyed over 1.5 million dollars worth of tea in today’s money.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.