Colonial Protests Intensify

As taxes where being settled, colonist eager to revolt. Parliment still couldn´t understand that the colonists didnt want any kind of taxation. Charles Townshend was a crown chief financial officer that thought colonists would accept indirect taxes and custom duties. But it was no surprise that the colonists didn´t went along with paying new taxes. There were three tactics that the colonists used to protest British taxes;

 

• Intelectual Protest - Virginia Resolves
• Economic Boycotts - non importation agreement
• Violent Intimidations - tarring and feathering

Tarring and Feathering was a barbaric and effective torture made by the colonists as a punishment to tax collectors. It consisted on applying hot tar on the victim, followed by a coat of feathers. Most of the time, the victim was completly nude, causing skin troble and suffer when pulling the hairs. After doing this, they turned the victim upside down, and dragged hot tea trough the victims throat. Apart from being a terrible torture, yet this gave them an effect.

The tax resistance among the colonies took three ways. This paragraph states those three ways and also the explanation. The first one are the Intellectual Protests, this consisted on making pamphlets, resolution, speeches, sermons and many other creative things in order to get what they wanted. Another of these ways were economic boycotts, in which they abstain from buying or using things from the British. This was kind of risky because the economy was put in danger of decaying. The last way were the violent intimidations, which were different types of tortures and intimidations, including also "tarring and feathering" previously mentioned.