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Townshend Acts

[toun-zuhnd]
–noun American History.
acts of the British Parliament in 1767, esp. the act that placed duties on tea, paper, lead, paint, etc., imported into the American colonies.

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named after Charles Townshend (1725–67), English statesman, their sponsor
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