01:512:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Townshend Acts, Crispus Attucks, Liberty Pole
8 Nov 2016
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Save your money, and save your country : the townshend revenue acts, 1767- king george iii asks william pitt to be pm b/c of failed governments, pitt was sick. Charles townshend, chancellor of the exchequer, took pm spot: townshend had more problems in england than colonies, 1767- townshend revenue acts. Taxed tea, lead, paint, paper, glass: formed to bring revenue to england w/out angering citizens in england, john dickinson letters from a farmer in penn. Would give it back if the ppl relent: daughters of liberty- women groups. Set up spinning & weaving bees: women made silks & satins, didn"t make husbands tea, nonimportation: an early political boycott, more ny & mass. Acts: ny assembly caves in to townshend in 1769. Many ppl were wounded: 11 year old boy shot dead in riot, raised tensions between colonists and british troops, more soldiers came stoned, they fired. Spread by printed by paul revere: same day as bos.
