A series of ineffective strikes and disagreements between the leaders weakened the influence the KoL had.
It would be a "proportional" tax rate system that uses the same rate for all income levels, although in most western countries this is not used. Instead a "progressive" tax structure is used.
British Parliament implemented the Coercive Acts, known to the American colonists as the Intolerable Acts, to punish the residents of Boston for the Boston Tea Party and strengthen British control over Massachusetts. The British hoped to use strict martial law to isolate Boston and New England from the other colonies.