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When France's expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies.
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Issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War, forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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This act was passed by the British Parliament, imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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Where colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on importation of imported molasses.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts passed that related to the British American colonies in North America. The Chancellor that proposed the program was Charles Townshend and the acts were named after him as well.
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When a squad of British soldiers came to support a sentry who was pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots.
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This act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation.
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Harsh laws passed by the British Parliament, meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.
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These battles kicked of the American Revolutionary War, tensions had already been building so this pushed everything over the edge.
