Boston on March 1770 and was shot in the Boston Massacre which became know for one of America’s most tragic history The Townshend Acts Are Passed After all the Riots and uproars during the stamp act the British still needed money to pay the debt for all the expenses they owed during the French and Indian War. The Townshend act was passed on parliament in 1767 by Charles Townshend and New York's assembly could not
such as the Stamp Act of 1765, the Quartering Act of 1765, the Townshend Acts, and others. In response to these violations, Americans revolted by forming the Sons of Liberty, which would lead to the Liberty Riot. With the events leading up to the Boston Massacre growing tension between America and its Mother Country would only continue to grow. By passing the Stamp Act of 1765, Parliament overstepped its boundaries by not receiving consent from the Colonial Assembly. The Stamp Act placed taxes on
The American Revolution started on 19th of April 1775, and the key causes of the American Revolution were The Townshend act (1767), The 7-Year war (1754), Boston tea party (1773) and The Boston Massacre (1770). There are more causes however I find that these are more significant than the others. One of the main causes of the American Revolution was the 7-Year war (1754). I think it was one of the main causes because the British Taxed the American colonies because the 7 Year war was very expensive
British parliament was the intolerable acts. They were for penalizing Massachusetts colonists for confrontation in throwing a huge tea shipment into the Boston harbor. These laws were called coercive acts in Great Britain. These acts took away Massachusetts’ historic rights and self government. Causing resistance and outrage in the thirteen colonies. In 1775 they were key improvement in an up rise of the American Revolution. In direct response four of the acts were issued to the Boston tea party in
John Hancock was born on January 23, 1737 in Braintree, Massachusetts. His father was Reverend John Hancock and his mother was Mary Hawke Thaxter. At the age of seven, his father passed away and his mother remarried years later. His uncle, Thomas Hancock and his wife Lydia Henchman, adopted John. Thomas and his wife did not have children of their own but they did treat John as of he was their child. Old Hancock was a wealthy man, and was known as one of the richest in the colonies. John Hancock
The sugar act was more of a revision of an act called molasses act. The molasses was a importation tax on the product. the molasses act levied a tax of six pence per gallon, but the sugar act, which was a revision to the molasses act, reduced the tax from six pence per gallon to three pence per gallon and included more products to be taxed. But how did the act effect the colonies? Well the act reduced the colonies business, reduced their market and reducing
The Sugar Act of 1764 was one of the first acts that enraged the colonists. It taxed colonists importing sugar and molasses. Also, British officials came down more strictly on smuggling by enforcing the use of lists to account for every item on the ship, and stopping ships to search them. This directly affected the merchants because they had to pay more money, and it hurt their businesses. The colonists reacted to this act by boycotting British goods, and Samuel Adams helped found the Committees
with; The Navigation Act, French and Indian War, Pontiac’s Rebellion, The Sugar Act, The Stamp act, Declaratory Act, Townshend Act, The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and The Intolerable Acts. Of course, they could not be tamed. The Navigation act of 1660 was passed by parliament to limit trade for the colonist. First, it forbade colonists from trading sugar and cotton. Second the act required colonists to use British ships. Finally, Parliament passed an act that all trade must
This letter, written in 1767 by John Dickinson was a plea to unite all the colonists against the Townshend Acts. He thought the taxes that the British implemented were unconstitutional. Dickinson didn’t want violent protests. He just wanted what he thought was right for colonists. Which was to make peaceful protest against the British’s Acts and taxation. Dickinson was a very intelligent man. He knew that a change had to be made or the British would continue to do what they wanted. Dickinson wanted
could live their lives and also put burdens and restrictions on them. The Molasses Act of 1733 put taxes on sugar and molasses imported from outside colonies and the Sugar Act of 1764 put taxes on importing sugar and wines. The British passed an act that said the colonists had to provide shelter and food to the British troops in the colony, which imposed on families. The British also passed the Townshend Act of 1767, which put taxes on tea, lead, paints, paper, glass, and other imports. The American