The cause of the Townshend Act was the fact that citizens were being taxed already by the Stamp Act and that money was not going to Europe to gain. There was a lot of boycotting of this.
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the townshend act was a tax on glass, lead, paper, and tea.
These were some of the items on which duties (taxes) were levied by England on its American colonies.
No the townshend act did not give writs of assistance. The act legalized search warrants, and the rights of people were fringed upon.
1767
the revenue act and the indemnity act