The correct answer is B) The statement that BEST describes the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence was to share news among the colonies and to keep in touch with similar committees in other colonies. Boston was the first one to have a Committee of Correspondence, in 1764. In 1765, New York had its committee.

Did the committees of observation and inspection enjoy widespread popular support? Yes, because all people eligible to vote for delegates of the lower house of the colonial assemblies were allowed to elect committee members at a local level.

Sugar Act, also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act, (1764), in U.S. colonial history, British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian …

Why did American colonist protest Parliament’s passage of the Sugar Act and Currency Act? These acts placed financial burden on many colonist who were already suffering from the effects of a depressed colonial economy. Parliament may exercise absolute authority over all colonial possessions.

In Virginia, Patrick Henry (1736-99), whose fiery orations against British tyranny would soon make him famous, submitted a series of resolutions to his colony’s assembly, the House of Burgesses. These resolutions denied Parliament’s right to tax the colonies and called on the colonists to resist the Stamp Act.

American colonists resented and opposed the Quartering Act of 1765, not because it meant they had to house British soldiers in their homes, but because they were being taxed to pay for provisions and barracks for the army – a standing army that they thought was unnecessary during peacetime and an army that they feared …

What was one result of the Sugar Act, the Quartering Act, and the Stamp Act in the period following the French Indian War? the French were kept from resuming the fight.

This new act allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers. This only further enraged the colonists by having what appeared to be foreign soldiers boarded in American cities and taking away their authority to keep the soldiers distant.

The Quartering Act: 1765 This meant that the colonists had to allow soldiers to stay in their homes and provide them with food, fuel, candles and transportation. Cause: British government left soldiers behind to protect the colonists from the Native Americans or French settlers in Florida.

The Quartering Act was passed primarily in response to greatly increased empire defense costs in America following the French and Indian War and Pontiac’s War.

Passed June 2, 1774, the Quartering Act was designed to improve housing options for regular troops stationed in the colonies. It seeks to address American doubts about “whether troops can be quartered otherwise than in barracks” if barracks were already provided for them by provincial and local authorities.

Due to unrest British officers followed the Quartering Act’s injunction to quarter their soldiers in public places, not in private homes. They pitched their tents on Boston Common. eventually, these fights led to the Boston Massacre of 1770, where British soldiers killed five colonial rock throwers.

Since 1765 the people of Boston had been heading protests against British taxation, first against the Stamp Act and then in 1767 against the Townshend Acts. Riots and protests were common occurrences as well as attacks on tax officials. …

Patriots argued the event was the massacre of civilians perpetrated by the British Army, while loyalists argued that it was an unfortunate accident, the result of self-defense of the British soldiers from a threatening and dangerous mob. …

There were two separate Boston Masacre trials. The trial of Captain Preston started almost 8 month after the incident and lasted for one week, from October 24, 1770 to October 30, 1770.

The Boston Massacre helped galvanize Boston and the colonies against the mother country. Samuel Adams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, played a leading role in framing the March 5 incident as a battle for American liberty.

Tensions between soldiers and civilians eventually resulted in the killing of five civilians in the Boston Massacre of March 1770. According to the “propagandist interpretation” of Adams popularized by historian John Miller, Adams deliberately provoked the incident to promote his secret agenda of American independence.

Tant had again heard the word Fire given, however Mr. Tant was not sure who had given the word and immediately the British soldiers started firing one after another, and he was not able to describe anything after the shots were fired. Mr. Tant then stood between the Custom-house door and the sentry-box.