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Townshend Acts
   by: Tyler Wallace

The Townshend Acts were
  a series of acts passed
    beginning in 1767
Paul Revere's engraving of British
troops landing in Boston in 1768.
The British government continued in its attempt to tax the colonists without their
     consent and the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution followed.



• Following the Seven Years War 1756–1763,
  the British Empire was deep in debt. To help
  pay some of the costs of the newly expanded
  empire, the Parliament of Great Britain/British
  Parliament decided to levy new taxes on the
  colonies of British America. Previously,
  through the Trade and Navigation Acts,
  Parliament had used taxation to regulate the
  trade of the empire.
constitutional issues involved.,
            Authority to Tax.
• It was argued that the Bill of Rights 1688
  protected British subjects from being taxes
  without the consent of a truly representative
  Parliament.
the question of the extent of
 Parliament's authority in the colonies
• Parliament provided its answer to this
  question when it repealed the Stamp Act in
  1766 by simultaneously passing the
  Declaratory Act, which proclaimed that
  Parliament could legislate for the colonies "in
  all cases whatsoever.
Raising revenue

• The first of the Townshend Acts, sometimes
  simply known as the Townshend Act, was the
  Revenue Act of 1767.
The End

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Townshend acts

  • 1. Townshend Acts by: Tyler Wallace The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767
  • 2. Paul Revere's engraving of British troops landing in Boston in 1768.
  • 3. The British government continued in its attempt to tax the colonists without their consent and the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution followed. • Following the Seven Years War 1756–1763, the British Empire was deep in debt. To help pay some of the costs of the newly expanded empire, the Parliament of Great Britain/British Parliament decided to levy new taxes on the colonies of British America. Previously, through the Trade and Navigation Acts, Parliament had used taxation to regulate the trade of the empire.
  • 4. constitutional issues involved., Authority to Tax. • It was argued that the Bill of Rights 1688 protected British subjects from being taxes without the consent of a truly representative Parliament.
  • 5. the question of the extent of Parliament's authority in the colonies • Parliament provided its answer to this question when it repealed the Stamp Act in 1766 by simultaneously passing the Declaratory Act, which proclaimed that Parliament could legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever.
  • 6. Raising revenue • The first of the Townshend Acts, sometimes simply known as the Townshend Act, was the Revenue Act of 1767.