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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repealed,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