2 gen 1767 anni - Townshend Acts
Descrizione:
- extend Navigation Acts but adds a tax on IMPORTS from Britain, using the revenue to pay royal governors' salaries
- Voters in Boston est. Committees of Correspondence, eventually est. in all colonies
- MA assembly draft letter of protest --> MA assembly dissolved by British govt.
- Sons of Liberty revived
- British non-import boycotts started (headed by Daughters of Liberty)
- Eventually repealed
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