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An Act to amend an Act, made in the Fifth Year of His present Majesty, [o] for amending the Road from Chatteris Ferry, through Chatteris and March, to Wisbech Saint Peter's, and from thence to Tide Gate in the Isle of Ely, and from Wisbech aforesaid, through Outwell, to Downham Bridge in the County of Norfolk; and for repealing the several Acts ...
The Petition to the King was a petition sent to King George III by the First Continental Congress in 1774, calling for the repeal of the Intolerable Acts. The King's rejection of the Petition, was one of the causes of the later United States Declaration of Independence and American Revolutionary War. The Continental Congress had hoped to ...
The first of the Townshend Acts, sometimes simply known as the Townshend Act, was the Revenue Act 1767 (7 Geo 3 c 46). [ d ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] This act represented the Chatham ministry 's new approach to generating tax revenue in the American colonies after the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766.
The Intolerable Acts, sometimes referred to as the Insufferable Acts or Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act , a tax measure enacted by Parliament in May 1773.
The entire text of Declaration and Resolves can be read at Wikisource: Text of the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress. The final resolve in this document refers to all of the intolerable acts, and states that under the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, they are prohibited and illegal.
The act provoked the ire of merchants in New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia, who responded by placing an embargo on British imports until the Stamp Act was repealed. To present a united front in their opposition, delegates from several provinces met in the Stamp Act Congress , which convened in New York City from October 7 through 25, 1765.
The Stamp Act faced opposition from American colonists, who initiated a movement to boycott British goods, from British merchants affected by the boycott, and from some Whig politicians in Parliament—notably William Pitt. [1]: 111–121 In 1766, under the leadership of a new ministry, Parliament repealed the
In 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts which added different types of taxes which were used to fund colonial governors and judges. [3] Among the new law's provisions was an import tax on items such as glass, paper, and tea—all of which had to be imported from Britain. [11] The act reinvigorated dissent. [3]