History of the United States I / Unit 5 USH1 0617 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Townshend Revenue Act
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The idea
The Revenue Act of seventeen sixty-seven placed duties on paper, paint, lead, tea and glass.
In practice
Townshend designing them as external taxes rather than internal ones like the Stamp Act.
Where people slip
He believed colonists would accept external duties, having objected to an internal tax. He had misread the objection entirely.
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