Hello, just check for spelling grammar and misspelled words. i had to write a letter to mrs. roosevelt for school. and let me know what you think of it! houston, texas_ _to mrs. roosevelt _from joseph dennis hey, mrs roosevelt my name is joseph a young boy who needs with food and clothes. my dad just lost his stupid job my mom just got fired from making cakes at the bakery. also my brothers truck broke down so we can go anywhere. and i am not sure what's gonna happen next but i ask my strength from the lord up above. i mean this letter sincerely think about it what if you were in my shoes with nothing to lose i hope you hear me. i am really hungry for food and clothes . i know there's always gonna be war then the one we got always gonna be some famen form the one we rot there's always gonna be a emmie's in life but i am never gonna be happy till i have something to eat and cloth myself with. sincerely joseph dennis_

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.