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It passed the first law specifically aimed at raising colonial money for the Crown.
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This act prohibited American colonies from issuing their own currency, angering many American colonists.
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Parliament's first direct tax on the American colonies. This act was enacted to raise money for Britain. It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards.
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The British angered American colonists with the Quartering Act, which required the colonies to provide barracks and supplies to British troops.
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It stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies " in all cases whatsoever ".
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The act was repealed, and the colonies abandoned their ban on imported British goods.
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To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
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John Dickinson declared that Parliament could not tax the colonies, called the Townshend Acts unconstitutional, and denounced the suspension of the New York Assembly as a threat to colonial liberties.
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A statement, approved by the Massachusetts House of Representatives, which attacked Parliament's persistence in taxing the colonies without proper representation, and which called for unified resistance by all the colonies.
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It reduced the tax on imported British tea, this act gave British merchants an unfair advantage in selling their tea in America.
