Read the excerpt from a proclamation by British colonel John Winslow. Your lands and tenements, cattle of all kinds and livestock of all sorts, are forfeited to the crown with all your other effects, saving your money and household goods, and you yourselves are to be removed from this, his province. –Colonel John Winslow, 1755 According to the proclamation, what were the Acadians able to keep after the British gained control of Canada? Check all that apply. cattle and other livestock .
tenements and buildings .
land and other property.
money items from their homes.

1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.