1. Why does Adams call the Boston Tea Party uprising a “magnificent movement”? 2. How does he see the two sides in the uprising? 3. Why does Adams argue that there was “no other alternative” to dumping the tea into the harbor? 4. What retaliation from the British government does Adams fear? Do you think modern-day U. S. protesters fear government backlash? Explain. 5. Based on the Upfront article and Adams’s diary entry, what do you think Adams might say about the long history of protests in this country?

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.