It was not all as good for the Colonies as it seemed, however, for with that came the Declarative Act. The Declarative Act states that, “That the King 's Majesty, by and with the consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever” (Temperley). This nullified any progress the House of Burgesses had accomplished. There was still hope however for the King George III appointed a new minister. He made a name for him self in the Colonies in the French and Indian War. He was sympathetic to the Colonies and was a supporter in repealing the Stamp Act. His name was William Pitt. Unfortunately for the Colonists, he fell ill shortly after taking office and passed and was replaced by Townshend. Townshend had quite the opposite views as Pitt. He supported generating yet even more revenue from the Colonies. He adds taxes on lead, paint, paper, glass, and tea. He also set out to quell the power of the upstart American assemblies. He used the New York legislature to set a bold example. The New York legislature was not recognizing the Quartering Act. Townshend suspended the Assembly until they submitted and agreed to recognize and follow the act. Such
The Boston Harbor was closed by these Acts and would not be reopened until all the tea that was lost was paid off. It also Curtailed town meetings in Massachusetts and stopped elections of council members. The Parliament strengthened the Quartering Act, allowing military soldiers to lodge soldiers in the homes of the colonists. The Intolerable Acts united the colonies against the Acts that threatened the colonist’s political freedom. “That we scorn the chains of slavery; we despise every attempt to rivet them upon us (Farmington, Connecticut, Resolutions on the Intolerable Acts, 94),” describes how the American colonists saw the Intolerable Acts as a form of repression, making them equivalent to the level of
The Townshend Acts were a series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right of colonial authority through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict collection provisions of additional revenue duties. The British-American colonists named the acts after Charles Townshend, who sponsored them. “The Suspending Act prohibited the New York Assembly from conducting any further business until it complied with the financial requirements of the Quartering Act (1765) for the expenses of British troops stationed there” (Britannica p.1). The second act, often called the Townshend duties, and imposed direct revenue duties payable at colonial ports, on lead, glass, paper, paint, and tea. It was the second time in the history of the colonies that a tax had been levied solely f...
Socially the people of the colonies were considered lower than the citizens born in England this made the colonists angry as they considered themselves English citizens. They eventually started to wonder why people from so far away, who did not know what was going on in the colonies, should create rules for them. After the French and Indian war, once the acts to tax stamps, sugar, and other goods the colonists protested because they had no representation in the matter of the taxes. The King stated because they spent so much money on the war to protect the colonies that he should be allowed to tax them at will, However the colonists believed the war was not for their protection and benefit, but to strengthen the British empire and therefore deserved representation if they were to be taxed. When the Quatering act was placed it further strained the relationship between the British and colonists.
“[The British] saw the destruction of 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company as wanton destruction of property by Boston thugs who did not even have the courage to admit responsibility. Someone was going to pay”. (ushistory.org). The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws sponsored by British Prime Minister Lord North and passed in 1774. There were four different laws. The Impartial Administration of Justice Act allowed the trials of the British officers, who were accused of murder of the colonists to be moved to another colony. The Massachusetts Government Act gave the British full rule over the colony, which limited the powers of the colonists. Boston Port Act closed the Boston Harbor until the British were paid back for the destroyed tea. The Quartering Act required certain colonists to house and provide food for British troops. Each act had its own effects but overall they all had great effects on the American Colonists primarily in Boston. The acts also brought the colonies together and it led to the formation of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Basically, the Intolerable Acts just made things worse and eventually led to the first Revolutionary
Overall, the colonists strongly disapproved of the various taxes implemented by Great Britain. Although Great Britain unfairly taxed the colonists, this action, with many others, was a jumpstart for colonists to break away and create a nation of their own. Without the work and strenuous labor of the colonists to break away from the monarchy, America could still be a benefactor to Great Britain.
So the colonist went a little overboard and through all the tea on the British ships overboard. The British Parliament then decided to pass the Intolerable Acts, which were a series of laws passed to punish the colonist for the Boston Tea Party. The Intolerable Acts were the port of Boston was closed until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea. The royal governor could have decided to ban town meetings, British officials accused of crimes would stand trial in Britain instead of in Massachusetts. The last act was the Quartering Act which allowed the British troops to live in unoccupied colonial buildings and homes. These acts were enacted to restore authority in its colonies. The colonist were the most angry about the Quartering Act because they felt that there was no reason for a soldier to be stationed in the colonies after the war
These Acts were shortly followed by the Townshend Acts of 1767, which attempted to tax the colonists through customs. British customs agents were stationed in Boston to enforce the Acts. Through these actions the British only aggravated the colonists. It had become obvious that Parliament was completely ignorant of the issues surrounding the colonies. It was not that the taxes were too difficult to enforce, it was that the colonists refused to participate in taxation from a government that they were not involved in.
The Stamp Act was one of the many taxes the British put on the colonists to help pay for the debt of the French and Indian war, except this one taxed all the paper in colonies. According to document 3 “ a very burdensome in our opinion unconstitutional tax is to be laid Upon us all… this tax is unconstitutional… no man should be subject to any tax which he has not given his own consent” this is how the colonists felt, overall they thought it was against al they stood for to have to pay against their will. The parliament decided what laws were to be made, the colonists thought they should have a decision in those law making decision. In all the Stamp Act was one of biggest contributor to the American
Charles Townshend presented a way to the House of Congress to gain income from the Americans (Chapter 5). His idea turned out to be more of a scheme when these Revenue Acts involved placing duties on American imports of paper, glass, paint, lead, and tea (chapter 5). The chancellor realized that without the proper enformentents, his plan to collect money from the Americans would come close to failing. To insure that his plan would continue to “grow”, Townshend created an American Board of Customs Commissioners (Chapter 5). He managed to convince Parliament to order New York's governor to veto bills passed by the colony’s assembly until it allowed British troops to stay with the colonists, an act known as the Quartering Act (May 1765) (Chapter 5). The act angered the Americans because it violated their rights and they had to provide the troops with certain necessities. The American saw the act as “taxation without representation (Chapter 5)”. Just like the colonists refused to follow Grenville’s Stamp Act, they refused to pay Townshend's duties. Just like previous revolts, the Sons of Liberty organized boycotts of British goods (Chapter 5). The Revenue Acts caused people to take oaths before their neighbors, promising one another that they would not purchase certain goods until Parliament revoked such an act (Chapter 5). Yet again
While the Stamp Act was probably more vital to the colonists’ every-day lives, the Sons of Liberty orchestrated yet another embargo on a taxed item that would force England’s hand to withdraw the tax. England would later create an act called the Townshend Act which taxed a plethora of goods, but the attempt once again seemed futile, as colonists simply refused to buy the goods that were taxed. The final straw for Great Britain was the disobedient act colonists coined “The Boston Tea Party.” This act entailed the colonists discarding all the tea on an English merchant ship following England’s ambitions to bail a company out by lowering the tax exclusively for this company. The repercussions for this was known as the Coercive Acts,” stating that colonists must pay off the debts for this act of rebellion before docks were to be
Assumed that violators were strained in juryless admiralty courts, there was a great probability of conviction. Townshend also pushed the Americans to the bound by interrupting the New York legislature for dying to offer adequate provisions for the British troops located there. Reactions in the colonies remained violent, identical to those for the period of the Stamp Act Crisis. Once more nonimportation was applied extralegal activities such as troublesome tax collectors and traders who disrupted the boycotts were frequent and the colonial congresses jumped into action. The colonists weren’t in contradiction of the law however they were intensely opposed to taxes enforced by the British parliament, discontented with the bellow of "No Taxation without demonstration" As the colonists celebrated their political victory, the British parliament voted for the Declaratory Act which provided the British with an expansive command to execute laws, and taxes, on the American colonies. In a period of a year of the passing of the Declaratory Act, innovative trade rules were obligatory on America. The new taxes, were introduced by the Townshend Acts of
Life back then was hard. The colonists had tried to rebel and as a result; the British Parliament passed many acts that negatively affected the colonist’s everyday lives. Some of these acts were the Townshend Acts. They were passed as a means of generating income for colonial administration. The Townshend acts placed taxes on paper, lead, paint, and tea imported into the colonies. A boycott engineered by the colonists angered the
In 1756 the British Parliament imposed a tax, called the Stamp Tax on the British colonies. This tax required all the citizens of the 13 colonies to pay a small amount on all their paper and paper items. The tax was introduced because the British were in heavy debt from the French and Indian war which lasted from 1754-1763. The British saw this as an efficient way to pay back their debts and had no intention for troubling the colonists. When the Stamp Act was enacted the colonists were outraged and reacted in a very poor manor. When the stamp act was passed, the colonists reaction was very different from what the British had originally thought. The colonists were truly mad, which led them to take harsh actions. The colonists; not putting up with the new tax, had to change their lifestyle quite a bit and learn how to adapt to the new circumstance.
After a year of resisting to Stamp Act, England repeal the Stamp Act in 1766. England still want to tax colonist for revenue, and give out Townshend Act wee expressly intended to raise money for the support of Crown officials in America. Townshend Act where external tax revenue, clear and plain, it was just as unconstitutional as the Stamp