The James Journal Jun. 2014 | Page 14

  13   Also,   the   colonists   weren’t   represented,   and   Townshend   Acts.   More   colonists   took   this   tax   they   would   only   be   taxed   by   their   own   less   seriously   than   the   stamp   tax,   mainly   representatives.  After  the   repeal   of  the   stamp   because  it  was  light.  They  did  find  out  that  they   tax,   the   could  smuggle  tea  in  at  a  cheaper  price,  which   Declaratory   Act.   This   stated   that   Parliament   really   took   hold   in   Massachusetts.   The   British   had   the   right   of   absolute   and   unqualified   eventually   found   this   out,   and   sent   two   sovereignty   over   the   American   colonies.   The   regiments  of  soldiers   to   Boston  in  1768.   These   colonists   already   stated   that   they   wanted   a   troops  were  drunks,  and  the  colonists  resented   certain   amount   of   sovereignty   themselves.   them.   On   March   5,   1770,   a   crowd   of   sixty   These   contrasting   statements   paved   the   way   colonists   started   taunting   a   group   of   10   for  more  confrontation,  and  eventually  war.   redcoats;   they   even   threw   snowballs   at   them.     1767,   The   troops   got   nervous,   and   without   orders   persuaded  Parliament  to  pass   the   Townshend   fired   upon   the   crowd,   wounding   or   killing   Acts.   This   act  essentially   wanted  to   lightly   tax   eleven   Americans.   This   day   has   come   to   be   the   Americans   without   them   really   noticing.   known   as   the   Boston   Massacre,   and   it   was   Instead   of   taxing   the   colonists   directly,   the   purely   caused   by   differing   economic   views   Townshend   Acts   taxed   goods   at   American   between  the  colonists  and  the  British.   however,   Charles   Parliament   Townshend,   passed   in   Ports.   These   taxes   were   meant   to   pay   the   salaries   of   the   royal   governors   and   judges   producing   an   astonishingly   low   £295   in   one   that   were   in   America.   The   colonists,   though,   year,  while  the  military  costs  in  the  colony  for   were   still   not   pleased,   and   the   main   reason   that   year   were   £170,000.   The   acts   were   was   taxation   without   representation.   They   repealed,  but  the  tax  on  tea  was  kept,  “to  keep   reinstalled   the   nonimportation   agreements,   alive   the   principle   of   Parliament’s   right   to   tax   but   they   were   much   less   effective   on   the     The   Townshend