In A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Thomas Jefferson stated that a 1731 piece of legislation named for these items was “an instance of despotism to which no parallel can be produced.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these clothing items whose production, particularly their tricorne and straw types, was heavily controlled by the British in the Thirteen Colonies.
ANSWER: hats [or caps]
[10m] The Hat Act extended these 17th-century anti-competitive laws enacted by the British to control trade in the colonies. Edmund Andros enforced these laws, which targeted products like molasses and sugar.
ANSWER: Navigation Acts [or Acts of Trade and Navigation]
[10h] The Hat Act hurt the economy of this city, which produced over five million hats a year in colonial times. Jefferson wrote a letter to a Baptist group in this city calling for a “wall of separation between Church and State.”
ANSWER: Danbury, Connecticut
<NS, American History>