The Townshend Acts (jun 5, 1767 – jul 6, 1768)

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The Townshend Acts were a series of British Acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 and relating to the British in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. Historians vary slightly as to which acts they include under the heading "Townshend Acts", but five acts are often mentioned


The purposes of the Townshend Acts were

-To raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain,

-To create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations,

-To punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and

-To establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies.

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