"After that the Townshend Act in 1767 which required Boston Merchants to pay taxes on lead, glass, paper, paint and tea from England, the colonists got enraged. The Boston Merchants refused to pay and the king sent British soldiers to keep order in the colonies and reinforce the Townsend Act."
This excerpt is from a <u>primary</u> source. The author of this excerpt is <u>Rebecca Maksel</u>. The events presented in this excerpt occurred in <u>1936</u>. The <u>main idea</u> of this excerpt is that Dorothea Lange's photos of Depression-era migrant workers helped expose their terrible living conditions.
<h3>Explanation: Slaves from the north were free and encouraged to take arm in fighting their former masters {the south} as their former masters did not want to free them as they were the source for food production. The slaves then wanted to be free so some of them escaped from the south and went to the north in search of freedom.</h3>
