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**Quiz for Document 5.2: Boycott Agreement of Women in Boston (1770)**

Quiz for Document 5.2: Boycott Agreement of Women in Boston (1770)

Document 5.2: Boycott Agreement of Women in Boston (1770)

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Question 5.4

1. What item did the three hundred women who signed this agreement promise to boycott in 1770?

Cloth imported to the colonies by Britain

Stores owned by British merchants

Any product that required a British stamp

Tea, which was imported exclusively by the British

Question 5.5

2. This boycott agreement demonstrates that women

across the American colonies had begun to cooperate with one another to resist the British.

were completely prohibited from participating in political activities.

felt strongly about British policies and found informal ways to participate in politics.

had become strong opponents of the power of the merchant class in Boston.

Question 5.6

3. When the women wrote that their “invaluable Rights and Privileges” were “attacked in an unconstitutional and most alarming Manner,” they were referring to what?

Their rights to make food for their families

Their rights as British citizens

Their right to participate in colonial assemblies

Their right to free speech

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