Robert Lindneux's Painting Response
Imagine you could speak to some of the people in Robert Lindneux’s painting. Create responses for the interview questions shown in the image below. You may submit the responses as text-only or as an image of the painting with captions.

(and if you give a bad answer, or a joke answer, or anything that isn't a real answer, you will be reported, so don't try getting points without trying)

an era of negotiation.

is that an answer to your question?

1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.