Colonial reaction of the townshend act 1767?

Answer 1

The Townshend Acts, British legislation intended to raise revenue, tighten customs enforcement, and assert imperial authority in America, were sponsored by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, (right - 1725-67) and enacted on June 29, 1767. The key statute levied import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Its purpose was to provide salaries for some colonial officials so that the provincial assemblies could not coerce them by withholding wages.

Answer 2

first of all, the townshend act was in 1767. The act stopped the towns act but put new taxs on entering goods from North America by ship. The thirteen colonies again refused to buy the goods so, Britain removed the taxes except for tea and that started the Boston tea party

Answer 3

The Townshend Acts applied duties (taxes) to paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea imported by the colonies. Townshend had studied the colonist's distinction between internal and external taxes and he believed his duties were external as none of the products, except tea, could be made in the colonies. The colonists did not agree with his thinking and the result was a colonial boycott against British products. Trade between England and America fell off by 50 percent as a result of the boycott. The British merchants complained to Parliament who repealed the Townshend Duties except the tax on tea. The tea tax was kept in honor of the Declaratory Act. Parliament passed that act to declare that they did have the right to tax the colonies regardless of the American claim of internal or external taxation. The colonists would claim that the Declaratory Act was unconstitutional because the colonies did not have representation in Parliament. Great Britain claimed the colonies were represented "virtually," as Parliament represented all areas of the British Empire, regardless of whether or not a colony elected a representative to that legislative body. Thus, the debate over whether the colonies did have representation in Parliament would not be settled until the Revolution.

Answer 4

This act was made so that there was a small indirect tax on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea. The Townshend Acts were indirect for the tax was collected at port. However, the colonists recognized the tax and saw it as a deception thus fueling their displeasure in the crown and England. For a majority of the colonists this was a necessity item and they would need it in their daily lives and so they organized a boycott to say that they wouldn't buy these products. The Acts also insured that colonial officials, including governors and judges, would receive their salaries directly from the Crown. They "called in taxation without representation" since they were being taxed without having been consulted on the matter.