Townshend Acts
When did the Townshend Act pass?
June 1767
The year the acts was passed?
What is 1765
4 things that the Sugar Act taxed?
Sugar, wine, coffee, pimiento
What were the women calling themselves that supported this act?
Daughters of Liberty
The prime minister of UK that passed the acts?
Who is pm Grenville?
what was the reason the merchants did not like the sugar act
it reduced the amount they had to pay for there products
What did it allow tax collectors to do?
It allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods
Parliament first attempt to raise money in the colonies?
What are the Stamp Acts?
what tax replaced the sugar act
the revenue act
What did the Townshend Acts tax?
Glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
The colonists did this to get parliament to take away the acts?
what is boycotting?
who did the sugar act effect
business merchants and shippers
When did the troops come to Boston?
October 1768
The year that the acts were repealed?
What is 1766?
how much did the sugar act tax per gallon?
6 pence per gallon