The Townshend Acts (/ˈtaʊnzənd/) or Townshend Duties were a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 introducing a series of taxes...

establishment of the controversial Townshend Acts is considered one of the key causes of the American Revolution. Townshend was born at Raynham Hall in Norfolk...

from the colonies. Parliament believed that these acts, such as the Stamp Act 1765 and the Townshend Acts of 1767, were legitimate means of having the colonies...

headquartered in Boston. Resistance to the Townshend Acts grew slowly. The General Court was not in session when news of the acts reached Boston in October 1767....

taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Sons of Liberty strongly opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights...

tensions flared again following the British Parliament's passage of the Townshend Acts. In an effort to quell the mounting rebellion, King George III deployed...

Parliament took a different approach to raising revenue, passing the 1767 Townshend Acts, which established new duties on various imports and strengthened the...

duty-free export of tea from Britain, although the tax imposed by the Townshend Acts and collected in the colonies remained in force. It received the royal...

acts including Pearl Jam, Dave Grohl and Jeff Beck. Townshend was born in Chiswick, London, the same area and town where older brother Pete Townshend...

called for the universal boycott of British imports in opposition to the Townshend Acts. In October, the merchants of New York agreed on the condition that...

Florida) James W. Townsend House (Lake Butler, Florida) Townshend Acts, proposed by Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, that placed a tax on common...

The Quartering Acts were several acts of the Parliament of Great Britain which required local authorities in the Thirteen Colonies of British North America...

repeal of the Stamp Act the Townshend Acts, introduced by Charles Townshend, were passed by Parliament in 1767. These acts included The Revenue Act of...

any taxes it imposed on the colonists (such as the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts) were unconstitutional and were a denial of the colonists' rights as...

not the current constitution) in February 1768 in response to the Townshend Acts. Reactions to the letter brought heightened tensions between the British...

colonies, such as the Stamp Act of 1765 and the Townshend Acts of 1767. Parliament believed that these acts were a legitimate means of having the colonies...

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (/ˈtaʊnzənd/; born 19 May 1945) is an English musician. He is the co-founder, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principal...

John Richard Keith "Fuzz" Townshend (born 31 July 1964) is a British drummer, TV presenter of National Geographic Channel's Car SOS (also shown on Channel...

association that was formed in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act, and later the Townshend Acts, and was a general term for women who identified themselves as fighting...

center of resistance to unpopular acts of taxation by the British Parliament in the 1760s. In 1768, the Townshend Acts were enacted in the Thirteen Colonies...

Thirteen Colonies over a variety of issues, including the Stamp and Townshend Acts. The resulting British military occupation led to the Boston Massacre...

(This letter, adopted in response to the 1767 Townshend Acts, called for united colonial action against the acts. King George III had issued a demand for its...

Revenue Act of 1766 Revenue Act of 1767 (7 Geo. 3. c. 46), one of the Townshend Acts Revenue Act of 1861 Revenue Act of 1862 Revenue Act of 1894, known as...

Act and Townshend Acts united the colonies in a common cause. While the Stamp Act was withdrawn, taxes on tea remained under the Townshend Acts and took...

Thirteen Colonies, and were important in uniting the colonists against the Townshend Acts in the run-up to the American Revolution. According to many historians...

Test and Corporation Acts Indemnity Act 1747, following the Jacobite rising of 1745 Indemnity Act 1767, one of the Townshend Acts, relating to the British...

Liberty. Townsmen joined in the boycott of British goods following the Townshend Acts, and they supported the Boston Tea Party. Dedham's Woodward Tavern was...

failure of the Sugar Act and Stamp Act. The Townshend Acts, named for Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, are passed by Parliament, placing duties...

mountains. Harrison again joined the fray with Britain after it adopted the Townshend Acts, formally asserting the Parliament's right to tax the colonies. He was...

opposition to British colonial rule, especially to the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts. The newspaper was headquartered in Philadelphia. The newspaper was...