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Acts, Laws, and Duties 1767-1775

Acts, Laws, and Duties 1767-1775. Nick Streiffert , Jack Dwyer, Erik Preedom. Townshend Duties. Created by acting British p rime minister Charles Townshend in 1767 (William Pitt was actual prime minister, but was ill at the time)

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Acts, Laws, and Duties 1767-1775

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  1. Acts, Laws, and Duties1767-1775 Nick Streiffert, Jack Dwyer, Erik Preedom

  2. Townshend Duties • Created by acting British prime minister Charles Townshend in 1767 (William Pitt was actual prime minister, but was ill at the time) • The legislation imposed duties on paper, paint, glass, and tea imported to the colonies. Its revenue would support the British soldiers in America, but more importantly, to create a fund to pay royal governors, judges, and other imperial officials. • The colonies protested the new Townshend Duties by using a boycott of British goods and promoting domestic goods. • In response to the boycotts, Britain sent thousands of troops to Boston. • All of the duties (except for the tax on tea) were repealed by the new prime minister Lord North in 1770. NICE!

  3. Tea Act • 1773 • Primary purpose was to provide financial relief for the British East India Company, which was deeply in debt because of Military expeditions undertaken to extend British trade in India • Provided with a government loan and, more, important, relieved the company of paying tariffs on the tea it imported into Britain or other countries GOOD!

  4. Coercive Acts • Coercive Acts1774 • Outraged by Boston Tea Party and appeal to repeal Tea Act, parliament enacted 4 “coercive acts” to force Massachusetts into submission • A port bill closed Boston Harbor until the East India Company received payment for the tea. • A Government Act annulled the Massachusetts charter and prohibited local town meetings. • A new Quartering Act required the colony to build accommodate soldiers in private houses. • A Justice Act allowed the transfer of trials for capital crimes to other colonies or to Britain to protect royal officials from Patriot-dominated juries in Massachusetts. GOOD!

  5. Quebec Act • Quebec Acts1774 • Heightened the sense of common danger among European Protestant descent who lived in the Seaboard colonies • Extended the boundaries of Quebec into Ohio River Valley, restricting the Western boundaries of Virginia and other colonies • Angered influential people with western land claims • Gave legal recognition to Roman Catholicism, Protestants associated this with royal Government and Popish Superstition • Quebec Act and Coercive Acts together are usually referred to as the Intolerable Acts

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