Did The Townshend Act As A Result Of The American Revolution

With the victory of the French and Indian War, the British had a lot to celebrate over. There was a tremendous sense of nationalism throughout the colonies. The British had just obtained more land to grow and produce, new waterways for transportation to import and export goods allowing them to expand to be an even greater Nation. The war cleaned the British treasury out completely and they needed to come up with new ways to replenish those funds. With this sense of power in hand, the British wanted to focus on ending salutary neglect, by actually enforcing the laws that were created over 150 years prior. The British Government planned to develop the colonies into a profitable scheme by way of taxation. This would allow them to pick and choose what to tax and where the tax profits would come from. The colonist did not agree with these taxes and laws being imposed upon them and had every right to rebel against the British, ultimately resulting to …show more content…
Since the Stamp Act wasn’t much of a success with the colonies in making revenue, the British thought by implementing the Townshend Act in 1767 it would help out with the boycotts but still generate tax revenue at what the colonies would find acceptable. There were constitutional issues and the colonist continued to boycott leading to what is now known as the Boson Massacre. The British troops went to Boston in 1768 to enforce the tax burden executed in the Townshend Act. In 1770 there was a patriot mob outside the old State House in Boston throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at the British soldiers. One of the soldiers fired his weapon in the crowd causing a series of gunshots from the British to be fired killing five Americans. This was the first event between the Americans and the British that ended in