In Some Areas of Massachusetts, Colonists Opposed the Administration of Justice

question 44

Multiple Choice

In some areas of Massachusetts, colonists opposed the Administration of Justice Act by:

• A)organizing local boycotts against cloth and tea imported from Britain.
• B)holding "spinning bees" that encouraged American women to show loyalty to the resistance.
• C)burning the homes of stamp officials and hanging effigies of tax collectors.
• D)setting up committees of correspondence to circulate their grievances.
• E)closing courts rather than permitting the governor's appointed judges to sit.

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