Charles Townshend was a brilliant and witty man, and a member of the British Parliament who strove to please those he thought could do him the most good. He is mostly remembered for the Townshend Acts of 1767, which taxed and angered the American colonies to revolt. The acts had a huge and fatal impact on relations between the colonies and Great Britain, and for this reason Townshend will always be remembered as the man who did so much to bring on the American Revolution.
Charles Townshend was born on August 27, 1725, to Charles Townshend and his wife, Audrey, daughter and heiress of Edward Harrison. Charles was their second son and one of five children.
ok, so this brought many more riots.
a merchant ship called Liberty that belonged to a wealthy merchant called John Hancock got rich by smuggling, but later on, it was seized. The seizure brought other riots, this time, against custom officers. To stop this riots, the crown sent 4,000 troops. The prescence of these troops, of course, angered the colonists even more. So, one night, they decided they couldn't take it anymore, and a group of colonists started trowing snowballs and rocks at the British soldiers. The British soldiers were nervous and did not know what to do, so they fired their weapons and killed 5 colonists, including Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Galdwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patrick Garr. This became known as th Boston Massacre.
after the Boston Massacre, another big event occured. Parliament decided to take away the taxes, and only left taxes on tea. To help the company that was not in a very good economic situation, the parliament passed a bill allowing them to sell tea directly to the colonists. They thought this would help, but the colonists were not "buying" anything from them, they thought they were tricking them into paying taxes, since the tea was very expensive.
Aren't you exausted to hear about all of this riots and stuff? ok, so anyways, the colonists decided to get it over with. They dressed up like indians and boarded three Bristish that had landed with tea, and threw all the boxes of tea into the ocean. This was called The Boston Tea Party. (no, it did not mean to sit around a table and drink tea).
THIS was the Boston Tea Party.
a merchant ship called Liberty that belonged to a wealthy merchant called John Hancock got rich by smuggling, but later on, it was seized. The seizure brought other riots, this time, against custom officers. To stop this riots, the crown sent 4,000 troops. The prescence of these troops, of course, angered the colonists even more. So, one night, they decided they couldn't take it anymore, and a group of colonists started trowing snowballs and rocks at the British soldiers. The British soldiers were nervous and did not know what to do, so they fired their weapons and killed 5 colonists, including Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Galdwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patrick Garr. This became known as th Boston Massacre.
after the Boston Massacre, another big event occured. Parliament decided to take away the taxes, and only left taxes on tea. To help the company that was not in a very good economic situation, the parliament passed a bill allowing them to sell tea directly to the colonists. They thought this would help, but the colonists were not "buying" anything from them, they thought they were tricking them into paying taxes, since the tea was very expensive.
Aren't you exausted to hear about all of this riots and stuff? ok, so anyways, the colonists decided to get it over with. They dressed up like indians and boarded three Bristish that had landed with tea, and threw all the boxes of tea into the ocean. This was called The Boston Tea Party. (no, it did not mean to sit around a table and drink tea).
And again, NO, they did not sit down and have tea, like Alice in Wonderland.:)
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