The winter of 1620 was brutal for the New World's newly arrived Pilgrims. Unprepared and unaware of how to provide for themselves in the wilderness, the Pilgrims would never have survived without the help of the Native Americans, who taught the settlers to rely on nature's cues. For instance, the natives knew when winter was over and corn-planting time had arrived when the oak leaves became the same size as a mouse's ear. They also showed the Pilgrims how burying fish alongside corn seed increased the crop yield. a. In the story above, who were the people acting as scientists

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.