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document. Answer the questions that follow the document on the Answer
Sheet.
INTOLERABLE
ACTS, 1774
The Alternative Of Williams-Burg
Historical
Background:
Parliament moved quickly to
punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party and to reassert its authority over
the colonies. It passed a series of acts that the colonists called
“intolerable.”
This political cartoon shows colonial protest against the Intolerable
Acts. In August of 1774, the Williamsburg Resolutions were passed. Virginians
were urged to sign a pledge of loyalty to the Continental Congress and to stop
the export of tobacco to England, the colonies’ major and most profitable
crop, until all taxes on imported goods were repealed.
1.
Why did the colonists call the new Acts “intolerable”?
2.
Why would some colonist want to refuse to sign the pledge not to sell
tobacco to
England?
3. What would happen to them if they didn’t sign? (What is hanging from
the gallows?)