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Actually, they weren't. The difference was that the Tea Act was written in a way to try to look like something other than a tax, but also so if the colonists accepted it, the British Parliament would argue that they had accepted the power of Parliament to tax them without representation.
Colonists who understood the world situation also objected to the tax because it was a move by Parliament to bail out the British East India Company by raising money from the colonists. Giant corporations were regarded as oppressing the colonists along with the Crown, so fighting the tea tax was a fight against two evils at once.
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What incident led parliament to withdraw nearly all of the Townsend Acts?
The Boston Massacre in 1770 prompted Parliament to repeal most of the Townshend acts except for the tax on tea.
What incident led parliament to withdraw nearly all the Townsend Acts?
The Boston Massacre in 1770 prompted Parliament to repeal most of the Townshend acts except for the tax on tea.
After the Boston massacre all townshend acts were repealed except what?
The british kept taxes on tea.
What incident lead Parliament to withdraw nearly all of the Townshend acts?
The Boston Massacre in 1770 prompted Parliament to repeal most of the Townshend acts except for the tax on tea.
Why were the townshend acts?
Because a newer leader, named Lord North, saw that the British weren't gaining any money from the acts. so early in 1770, he convinced the Parliament to repeal all of the Townshend Acts, except for one, the tax on tea.
How do you spell the past tense of except?
Except is usually a preposition. (The verb accept is often confused with except.)Where either accept (to receive or agree) or except (to exclude) is used, the past tenses are accepted (received) and excepted (left out).Examples:He accepted his diploma during the ceremony.The church was excepted from the city property tax.
President Jefferson did all of these except one Close the bank of the US. Repeal the Whiskey Tax. Stop prosecutions under Alien and Sedition acts. Establish a laissez-faire approach to government?
He didn't stop prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition acts.
What is a list of the following events in the correct chronoligical order?
1.Britain repealed all of the townshed acts except the tea tax. 2.the boston tea party occurred. 3.the correspondence and safety were established.
Did the British Parliament repeal all of the Townsend acts taxes except the Tax on tea after the Boston Massacre?
No. The king got mad and closed the port of Boston, sent in more troops and added more taxes.
The Constitution defines all of the following as limits of the government’s power to tax except that _____.?
the federal government is authorized to tax imports and exports
All of the following are constitutional limits on the power to tax except that _____.?
exports must not be taxed
What British tax remains after the townshend acts were repealed?
The taxes to remain after the Townshend Acts were repealed were the Intolerable/Coercive Acts and the other big tax to remain is the Tea Acts
