Stamp And Sugar Act Dbq

As a result of Britain’s ever-growing debt the Parliament in acted additional acts on top of the Sugar Act. These new acts included the Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act, and the Townshend Act each of these acts the colonist responded uniquely. With some acts there was protest such as harassing officials and in some there was complete boycotting of goods. In contrast some acts such, as the Declaratory Act was not protested at all. An additional law that was forced upon the colonist was proposed by George Greenville was the Stamp act. The Stamp Act passed on November 1, 1765 the purpose of this act was to increase the revenue in America to help pay for Britain’s debt this act include taxing legal documents, newspapers and any other item bearing …show more content…
Intern, making the boycotts that was demolishing the British economy end. When Rockingham voiced his idea of repealing the Stamp and Sugar Act to the Parliament they did not essentially agree with him. The Parliament believed that by removing the Stamp and Sugar Act it would show weakness in the Parliament and would also have the American mobs believe that these acts were in fact unconstitutional. But to the Parliaments delight Rockingham had a solution to all their worries he proposed a three-part solution. First of all the Stamp and Sugar Act would have to be repeal since they had already demolished the British economy therefore making it useless to fix these acts. Secondly he proposed a new act the Declaratory Act, which would allow the Parliament to maintain the allusion of being strong this act allowed the Parliament to have full authority and make any laws that would bring the people of Britain and the colonies together. The third solution was to pass an additional act the Revenue Act of 1766 which would reduce the taxes on sugar by 2/3 the price of the original Sugar Act. The colonial people busted with happiness from Rockingham’s solution. Although they still regarded the Stamp Act to be unconstitutional they were glad it was repealed. They found little worry with the Declaratory Act since it did not come straight out and say that the Parliament had the right to tax the …show more content…
As a result of Pits being in the House of Lords, the duties of the House of Commons fell on the shoulders of Charles Townshend. Townshend unlike Pits believed the colonies needed to be shone the authority of the Parliament. He created the Townshend Act of 1767 to tax imports colonies received from Britain which include tea, paper, lead, glass and paint. The money raised from these taxes would go towards paying the government officials with in the colonies. Fear in the colonies arose when new American Board of Customs Commission arose to ensure that taxes were paid to the Townshend Duty Act. The colonialists were quick to protest this act but once again many protest where unrecognized in turn making them turn to more severe measures of protest. The colonial radicals establish a boycott of all British goods. However it was difficult to have all the ports agree to stop importing British goods it was relatively easy after the seizing of John Hancock’s ship, liberty in June of 1768, that sparked a riot. After this riot all the ports agreed to not import British goods until the Townshend Act was repealed. This nonimportation movement made the economy of Britain severely reduce. As a result of the sharp decline the king appointed a new prime minster, Frederick, Lord North in 1770. North voiced his concerns over the Townshend Act weakening the economy and purposed repealing