Townshend Act

The Townhend Act was originated in 1676. It was also created and named after Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament little time after the Stamp Act was repealed. It was designed to collect taxes from the Colonist in America by imposing costume duties on imported materials such as glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. John Dickinson, Samuel Adams and others protested about this taxes. Boston merchants started to boycott English goods. In 1768 The Massachusetts Assembly was dissolved for sending a circular letter to other colonies denouncing the Townshend Act, when the Massachusetts Assembly was dissolved  the colony was put under the control of an appointed governer and lost the right of town meetings. British send troops to keep peace but they were involved in unpleasant incidents such as the Boston Massacre, where five members of a mob that attacked the troops guarding the costume office were killed.  All this boycotts decreased British trade and by 1770 most of the acts were repealed.