Townshend, Tea, and Intolerable

Duty means a tax.

These were indirect taxes on paint, paper, tea, and a variety of other goods.
The colonists were unwilling to pay the tax, and began to boycott these import taxes.
All Townshend Duties were repealed except the tax on Tea.

This was NOT a tax on tea

This act gave the British East India Company the exclusive right to sell tea to the colonists.
Colonists could not buy tea from anywhere else which created a government backed monopoly.

Tea Act Boycotted.

Colonists began to boycott the tea because of the taxes imposed on under the Townshend Duties.
All Townshend Duties were all repealed except the one on Tea.
Sons of Liberty feared that cheap tea would limit the power and effectiveness of the boycott.

These were smaller tea parties than Boston, but prevented the tea from being sold.

Georgetown and Charles Town Tea Parties.

The Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans snuck onto a East India Company ship and threw the tea into the harbor ruining the tea.

Boston Tea Party

​As a result of the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passes the Intolerable Acts

Colonists begin to organize into The First Continental Congress to address The Intolerable Acts.

The Intolerable Acts

Consisted on 4 acts:
1) Boston Port Act- Closed Boston Harbor that relied on imports to make money.
2) Massachusetts Government Act- Restricted Town meetings and turned the Governor's council into a appointed body from Britain. Preventing the colonists from appointing their own government.

​The Intolerable Acts

3) Administration Government Act- made British troops immune to any criminal prosecution.
4) The Quartering Act- 1765. Parliament passed this act that allowed for 10,000 British troops to permenantly be stationed in the colonies for "protection of the colonies."
Colonists viewed this as an insult since the French and the Spainish were gone and they colonist felt they could handle the Native Americans in the area.