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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.
An Act to provide for the Commencement of an Act of the present Session, intituled "An Act to repeal an Act of the Sixth Year of King George the Fourth, [e] for encouraging the Capture or Destruction of Piratical Ships and Vessels; and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof." [f] (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 66))
The act reinvigorated dissent. [3] In March 1770, British troops fired on an angry mob of colonists in what became known as the Boston Massacre. [3] During the same month, many of the taxes from the Townshend Acts were repealed. An exception was the tax on tea. [11]
One of the many taxes protested by the colonists was a tax on tea, imposed when Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, and retained when most of the provisions of those acts were repealed. With the passage of the Tea Act in 1773, tea sold by the British East India Company would become less expensive than smuggled tea, and there would be reduced ...
The passage of the Townshend Acts in 1767 and 1768 again led to colonial protests, including a renewed boycott movement against British wares. Most of the taxes in the Townshend Acts were repealed in 1770 by the Ministry of Lord North. The passage of the Tea Act in May 1773, which enforced the remaining taxes on tea, led to the Boston Tea Party ...
An Act to repeal an Act, made in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to prevent Frauds in the buying and selling of Hops," [ab] and for the better Collection of the Duty on Hops; and to prevent Frauds and Abuses in the Trade of Hops. (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39))
By a change in Great Britain ministry's foreign policy, which wanted a promotion of trade, export and manufacturing, the Townshend Act was repeal, only partially, though. Subsequently, the colonists partially repealed their own non-importation policies. The duties imposed on many goods were lowered, except for tea.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives began a campaign against the Acts by sending a petition to King George III asking for the repeal of the Townshend Revenue Act. The House also sent the Massachusetts Circular Letter to other colonial assemblies, asking them to join the resistance movement, [ 5 ] and called for a boycott of merchants ...