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 * __ The Stamp And Townshend Acts __**

[|**What Was the Townshend Act of 1767**]

=[|The Stamp Act]=
 * 1) Who's name was the Townshend act named after?
 * 2) What year did the laws start?


 * 1) What was every paper commonly called?
 * 2) What did the people commonly call the officers?









The Stamp and Townshend Acts were the acts that placed taxes on various items in the colonies. The Stamp Act was passed by Parliament in March 1765, and affected most of the colonists. This Act required the colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items; legal documents, licenses, newspapers, pamphlets, and play cards. Nine delegates from each colony met in New York, and thought that the Stamp Act violated their liberties and rights. This idea spread to the colonists, and pressured Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act; it angered them enough that they made the Declaratory Act, which stated that Parliament made the rules, not the colonists. Parliament also passed the Townshend Acts in June 1767, which placed duties on imported glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. The money from the taxes paid for the salaries of colonial governors and the military costs. The Acts that placed taxes on multiple items in the colonies were the Stamp and the Townshend Acts. Those were good ideas to get money, but they violated the rights of colonists.

**The Stamp Acts /** **The Townshend Acts** Made by: David, Khai, and Sarah.
 * ~ Early 1765 ||~ Prime Minister Grenville heard complaints about the Sugar Act. ||~ June 1767 ||~ Parliament passed the Townshend Acts,which placed duties on imported glass, lead, paint,paper, and tea. ||
 * **March 1765** || **Grenville proposed the Stamp act and the Parliament passed it.**  || **February 1768**  || **Samuel Adams wrote a letter stating that the acts violated the legal rights of colonists.**  ||
 * **May 1765** || **Patrick Henry presented a series of resolutions to the House of Burgesses in Virginia. These resolutions stated that the Stamp Act violated the rights of the colonists as British citizens.**  || **October 1768**  || <span style="font-family: brush script mt,cursive; font-size: 27px;">**The colonists rebelled against the Townshend Acts. Governor Francis Bernard asked troops to restore order. British soldiers arrived in Boston and did so.**  ||
 * <span style="font-family: brush script mt,cursive; font-size: 27px;">**October 1765** || <span style="font-family: brush script mt,cursive; font-size: 27px;">**Delegates from nine colonies met in New York. They issued a declaration that the Stamp Act violated their rights and liberties. They then asked Parliament to repe**
 * al, or end, the act.** ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: brush script mt,cursive; font-size: 27px;">**1776** || <span style="font-family: brush script mt,cursive; font-size: 27px;">**William Pitt led Parliament in repealing the act in 1766.**  ||   ||   ||