Social Studies. The American Revolution.
5th Grade.
Imaginary Interview's Questions for The Daughter of Liberty
Interview Question:
1. What made you to weave textiles and clothes?
Possible Answer:
1. Well, it is an old traditional daily routine for women of our times to know how to weave clothes. I started learning and helping my Mother weaving when I was around 5 years old. I continue doing it now, first, for my family, then for other customers.
Interview Question:
2. What methods of weaving do you use? And what type of equipment do you use?
Possible Answer:
2. We do knitting, crocheting, felting, and braiding or plaiting. The device that helps to hold the warp threads in place is called Loom.* Also we used needles, pins, scissors and some other tools.
Interview Question:
3. Why did you join the movement of boycotting the import of British manufactured goods?
Possible Answer:
3. I wanted to help my new home country’s fellows to oppose not fair tariffs and taxes on imported British goods. It happened to be that we were protesting the Townshend Revenue Acts of November 20, 1767.**
Interview Question:
4. How did you join the boycotting movement?
Possible Answer:
4. On August 1, 1768 merchants and traders of Boston collectively decided not to import or export items to Britain. We called it Boston Non-Importation Agreement.** Since I already had my own shop of clothes I hired more workers and we started making more fabrics and clothes to sell to our customers for reasonable prices.
Interview Question:
5. How did Britain react onto your boycotts?
Possible Answer:
5. The official boycott began on December 1, 1774. The British responded with the New England Restraining Act of 1775. It means that we, as the New England colonies, have been restricted from trading with any other country besides Great Britain or her colonies and prevented colonists from entering the North Atlantic fisheries.***
Interview Question:
6. How else did you or other women resist the British acts of punishments?
Possible Answer:
6. For example, we agreed not to buy or drink British or English tea. To get around purchasing and drinking British tea, we, women, found alternatives by making herbal teas from various plants like raspberry, mint and basil, which we referred to as Liberty Tea. ****
Interview Question:
7. Were there any British soldiers in your house?
Possible Answer:
7. Yes, my family has been forced by the British authorities to host one officer in our house. Sometimes they used our house to have meetings with other officers and soldiers of the British army.
Interview Question:
8. Did you use the situation of hosting British soldiers for the benefits of your resistance movement? How did you use it?
Possible Answer:
8. I know it’s not right spying, but yes, we were spying on the British soldiers. But in that hard situation we had to get the information about possible actions against colonists, so we could pass it to The Sons of Liberty.
Interview Question:
9. What did you hear about Sarah Bradlee Fulton?
Possible Answer:
9. Yes, I’ve heard about Sarah Bradlee Fulton. She is a brave women. As I know, during the Siege of Boston, Sarah Bradlee Fulton also confronted a group of soldiers who had seized a shipment of wood that she and her husband had bought for the sole purpose of keeping it out of the hands of the British troops. When Fulton heard the troops had seized it, she chased the men down, grabbed their oxen by the horns, turned them around and commandeered the shipment. When the troops threatened to shoot her she simply replied “shoot away.” Amazed by her defiance, they surrendered the shipment to her.**** Interview Question: 10. What makes you to be sure that all your actions will help our country win?
Possible Answer:
10. Yes, I’m pretty sure that all our actions combined together will help our country win. Especially when we have so many brave, strong and wise men and women who are patriots and love their new home Country.
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References:
* - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving;
** - https://answerstoall.com/object/what-movement-is-boycott-the-import-of-british-manufactured-goods/;
*** - https://revive1775.com/734-2/;
**** - https://historyofmassachusetts.org/who-were-the-daughters-of-liberty/
