TownShed Acts
1767
The Act Summarized
- Issued by the parliament of Great Britain
- 5 Laws are mentioned
- To raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so 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 falling to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act
- To establish the precedent that the British parliament had the right to tax the colonies
How The Colonists Reacted
- TownShed Act didn't create an instant uproar
- The most influential colonial response to the TownShed Acts were a series of 12 essays by John Dickinson entitled "Letters From A Farmer In Pennsylvania"
- Dickinson argued that there was no difference between internal and external taxes
- The resistance in the colonies, prompted the occupation of Boston by British troops in 1768 which resulted in the Boston Massacre of 1770