This is <em>exactly</em> what we are learning in History at our school too.
Answer:
The colonists protested taxation by: Colonists would boycott British goods; why did they boycott British goods? Because the colonists weren't happy with Great Britain because of the French and Indian War; Great Britain had to pay the war debts.
The second one is the best
Maine admitted as free state and Missouri a slave state, preserved sectional balance of senate, Louisiana territory split b/w slaveholders and free settlers, south=slavery was legal, north= slavery banned (except Missouri), slavery in federal territories settled, slavery legal south of dividing line, Maine and Missouri= free states, settle slave issue temporarily
<em>Jean-Jacques Rosseau</em> would be the correct answer.
Through capital provided by English pirates.