TOWNSHEND ACTS 1767

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TOWNSHEND ACTS 1767

• Charles Townshend August 1766 appointed
  Chancellor of the Exchequer.
• Nicknames of Charles Townshend
• The weathercock
• Champagne Charlie
• lacked integrity and common sense

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TOWNSHEND ACTS

• Placed tax on the following items
• Lead
• glass
• paints
• paper
• tea

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Method of Enforcement

• Issue Writs of Assistance
• Established New Vice-Admiralty courts
• Boston
• Philadelphia
• Charleston
• 5 Mar.1770 Boston Massacre
• Crispus Attuck

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Methods of opposition to theTownshend Acts

• Revival of Nonimportation 28 Oct 1767.
• John Dickinson Letters From a Farmer in
  Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British
  Colonies.
• Samuel Adams Massachusetts Circular Letter.

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Opposition Continued

• 16-18 May 1769 Virginia Resolves and
  association, George Washington and George Mason.
• 12 Apr 1770 Townshend Duties limited to Tea.
• 9 Jun. 1772 Burning of the H.M.S. Gaspee.
• 10 may 1773 Tea Act- British East India Company.

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Boston Massacre, 5 Mar. 1770
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Burning of H.M.S. Gaspee 9 Jun. 1775
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Boston Tea Party

• 16 Dec. 1773 The Dartmouth was boarded by
  colonists and threw overboard 342 Chests of tea.
• Other tea disorders at Charleston, New York,
  Annapolis, and New Jersey.

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The Boston Tea Party 16 Dec. 1773
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British Reaction to theTea Party

• The Coercive acts
• Boston Port Bill
• Massachusetts Government Act
• The Administration of Justice Act

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Boston Port Bill

• 25 Mar. 1774 Boston Port Bill
• Act prohibited the loading or unloading of ships
  in any part of the Boston Harbor until someone
  paid for the tea and apologized for dumping the
  tea. Effective 1 June 1774.

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MassachusettsGovernment Act

• Annulled the Massachusetts Charter.
• Effective 1 aug.1774

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The AdministrationOf Justice Act

• To protect Crown Officials in the carrying out of
  their duties in colonial America. If any official
  was accused of a crime, that official would be
  tried in England and not in Colonial America.

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INTOLERABLE ACTS

• Quartering Act-To provide quarters for British
  troop in empty buildings and dwellings provided
  by the colonists.
• Quebec Act
• Granted civil rights and religious toleration to
  Catholics
• Extended the Canadian border into the Ohio Valley.

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Reaction to the Coercive Acts

• Jun 1774 Massachusetts called for colonial
  meeting. All colonies except Georgia responded
  to the meeting.
• Meeting held in Philadelphia 6 sept.- 26 oct.
  1774, Known as the first Continental congress.

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First Continental Congress

• Colonists still very conservative Submitted a
  list of grievance to the King.
• Denounce Coercive Acts and Quebec Act
• denounce the Vice-Admiralty Courts
• denounce the keeping of standing Army.
• Stated to meet again in May of 1775.

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Events Between the Continental Congresses

• Lord North's Plan defeated in Parliament.
• Galloways Plan defeated in the colonies.
• New England Restraining Acts All of New New
  England and the North Atlantic fisheries.

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Events Continued

• Apr. 1775 Parliament extended Restraining act to
  include New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania,Virgin
  ia and South Carolina.
• 19 Apr. 1775 Lexington and Concord. The Shot
  Heard Around the World.

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