Townshend Acts

heavy financial loss, in an effort to counteract the economic loss Britain passed the Navigation Acts along with other taxes on the colonies. Because the British believed that they played an essential part in defending the colonists during the French and Indian war, they thought that the colonists owed them monetary compensation. The end of Salutary Neglect, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, and the various acts imposed by Britain were the key factors that drove the colonists to start pushing for…

Firstly, one of the biggest complaints the colonists had was about being taxed unfairly. With such Acts as the Stamp Act and the Tea Act, the colonists became more and more upset with the taxation of everyday necessities. In document 2, an excerpt from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson, Dickinson explains his feelings about…

relieve Britain of its debt fell to George Grenville who thought that the colonies should share a cost of the war and that Britain should tighten its control over the colonial economies. The Sugar Act, as well as other future acts that were passed, created a colonial displeasure toward the British. The Sugar Act placed taxes on sugar, molasses, and other imports. Unlike other…

Company and performed one of the most iconic acts in American history—the Boston Tea Party. The disguised men dumped 340 chests of chests into harbor causing the East India Company to lose nearly 10,000£ of tea. Today, the Boston Tea Party is seen in good light by the majority of Americans. While the Boston Tea Party was a true revolutionary act, today’s understanding of the Boston Tea Party is woven with three myths regarding the reason behind the act and the effects of it. The first myth…

the causes of the American Revolution. This war between Britain and France ended with the victorious British deeply in debt. In order to pay off this debt, taxes were imposed on the colonies without their consent. Several tax acts such as the Stamp Act and the Townshend Act were passed in an attempt to pay for the war. This made the colonists angry as they were being taxed by a government that was so distant from them. They also protested against "taxation without representation."…

This event was caused by colonists’ anger at Britain as a result from the economic struggles they were facing from the taxes passed. If Britain had not passed the Stamp Act and other taxes/acts (such as the Townshend Acts) against America, then the colonists would not have been so angry at Britain. Though the colonists’ anger from the economic measures taken by Britain essentially caused all of the tension and hard feelings against the British…

like a very logical reason for the Parliament to impose taxes on the colonists. For the first year or so after the war, the taxes that were imposed were accepted as they were created, but in the year of 1764 the Sugar Act started to raise some eyebrows with the colonists. The Sugar Act was put in place to prevent the colonists from trading for cheaper molasses to produce rum because this was hurting Great Britain. It also raised the tax on other imported objects such as sugar which was not taken…

that the colonies should help pay off the debt because they were protecting them and their land. The colonists would have been in danger had it not been for Britain their “motherland.” The first tax that they imposed on the colonists was the Sugar Act of 1764 (Ayers, Gould and Oshinsky)The tax on molasses made sugar much more costly which resulted in less sweetener for the colonies’ tea and other drinks. This begin the…

Was the Boston massacre really a massacre? Or was it something else? Consider if the soldiers were justified or not in firing into the crowd? Did they have sufficient cause to fire into the crowd? Before we answer these questions, we need to know what set the stage for this bloodshed or as history calls it “Boston Massacre.” It is important as human beings, we need to look at it objectively, instead of taking sides which is a natural tendency. Especially when we look at history, which happened…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These words were the start of the Declaration of Independence written in 1776. The document was created as a final attempt to get freedom from England. Colonists had left England in search of freedom in America but instead found they were still controlled by the King. In hope of gaining…