A special meeting was held in New York in October 1765, to which nine colonies sent representatives. At the meeting, the representatives drew up a petition to protest the tax. The colonists insisted that only the colonial legislatures, their elected representatives, had the right to make laws and levy taxes. The cry went out throughout the land, “No taxation without representation.” The meeting was historic because it was the first time that people from different colonies got together to protest the government. Secret societies began to form. The Sons of Liberty was the most famous of these societies.
The main way in which the Marshall Plan impacted the European economy in the post-World War II era was by providing billions of dollars of aid to make sure that Europe didn't fall into the kinds of conditions that lead to tyrannical leaders.
It warned Roosevelt that Germany was developing an atomic bomb and encouraged him to start a nuclear program in the US that later became the Manhattan Project
The British attacked Washington DC for all of the following reasons, except "<span>a. to get revenge on the US for attacking the British at Waterloo," since this was a completely different war. </span><span />
