1 juin 1767 - The Townshend Acts

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In June 1767, Parliament inaugurated The Townshend Acts. Although The Townshend Acts were actually a series of acts, they all revolved around taxes being placed on imported glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. The colonists were against these laws because they violated the colonists' constitutional rights. This resulted in the colonists boycotting British goods. An anonymous Daughter of Liberty even stated, “I hope [we] would sooner wrap ourselves in sheep and goatskin than buy English goods of a people who have insulted us in such a scandalous [shocking] way.” As a result, several legislatures voted to join the protest against these acts.