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Townshends Act
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To better collect the new taxes, the Commissioners of Customs Act of 1767 established the American Board of Customs Commissioners | |
The Townshend Acts imposed duties on, glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies | The American Customs Board would generate considerable hostility in the colonies towards the British government |
Tax paid the soldiers and other officials. | The governor of massachusetts closed the legislature and brought in british troops to restore order in 1768. |
Arits of Assistance: Allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods. Blank search warrant. | The townshend act was not repealed until after the Boston Massacre to ease the tension between the colonies and the British. |
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America | |
The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. | |
In 1770, Parliament withdrew all the Townshend duties except the taxes on the tea, leading to a truce between the two sides in the years before the American Revolutions. |