Dinosaurs
...taxed with their permission. There was one of papa’s friends named John Dickinson that said “Countrymen, ROUSE yourselves and behold the ruin hanging over your heads…[If] parliament can legally take money our of our pockets, without our consent…our boasted liberty is but…a sound and nothing else.” Soon after that, the colonists started to boycott again like during the Stamp Act. Well, during one of the riots that happened, some British troops came and started to shoot. I thought it was a stupid idea really…. After that incident, they stopped most of the Townshend Acts’ requirements and it only affected the tea that was imported into the colonies. Apparently, the colonists were not happy still and wanted the whole act to disappear. They soon started to talk in the taverns and one night they dressed up as Native Americans and they sneaked onto a ship and took all the tea boxes, opened them, and threw out all the tea into the sea. I had a feeling that Britain wasn’t too happy about that…. Some time later, Parliament started to enforce laws to us called the Coercive Acts. We soon nicknamed them the “Intolerable Act...