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Britain and Its Colonies

 

The Sons of Liberty was a group of protestors, organized by Samuel Adams, intended to convince Andrew Oliver, the stamp distributor, to resign. If he would resign, there would be no one to sell the stamps. The Massachusetts legislature lead the formation of the first general intercolonial conference, the Stamp Act Congress, consisting of delegates from 9 of the 13 colonies (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and South Carolina).Strongly protested and opposed, the Stamp Act was recognized as unenforceable and was repealed on March 18, 1766. At the same time, however, Parliament passed the Declaratory Act, affirming its continuing authority over colonial legislatures. It is more than likely that if England (Parliament) had simply given the colonies fair and equal representation, there would never have been need of a revolution, and "America," would still be a part of Great Britain today.
             Then The Townshend Acts were enforced, which was a British legislation intended to raise revenue, tighten customs enforcement, and assert imperial authority in America. The Townshend Acts were sponsored by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Charles Townshend, and enacted on June 29, 1767. The key act taxed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Its purpose was to provide salaries for some colonial officials so that the provincial assemblies could not force them by withholding wages. Americans protested the Townshend duties, as they had the earlier Stamp Act, with constitutional petitions, boycotts, and violence that even included "tar and feathering". They now rejected all forms of parliamentary taxation, whether external duties on imports or internal taxes like the stamp levies. After colonists began to boycott British goods, Parliament changed the revenue measure on March 5, 1770. Duties on all items except tea were repealed.


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