The Boston Massacre also happened. The soldiers shot into a crowd of civilians killing three and injuring eight others, two of them mortally. Crispus Attacked.
The Townshend Acts applied duties (taxes) to paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea imported by the colonies. Townshend had studied the colonist's distinction between internal and external taxes and he...
The Townshend Acts imposed a tax on tea, glass, lead, paper, and paints. It also included the Writs of Assistance, which introduced strict customs enforcement and non-specific search warrants in the...