The Townsend Act: Four Items Taxed were Lead, Paper, Glass and Tea.
The Americans wanted to pay royal governors out of their own pockets because the British Parliament had no right to tax them since they did not have representatives. Thus, because they had no representation, they declared that they would pay only if such acts were passed by their legislature. Redcoats were British soldiers. They were unpopular in the colonies because they were basically tax collectors f
The reason a boycott would hurt English merchants is that they could face financial ruin, as would the British workers who made goods for the colonies.
Paul Revere is noted for making the Boston Massacre famous by making an engraving of the event so that the common people could see it and read it for themselves.
Sam Adams need John Hancock because Adams was basically a politician of modest means, and Hancock was the wealthiest man in New England.
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