The Townshend Acts In 1767 Charles Townshend who was the chancellor of the exchequer, created the Townshend Acts . The Townshend Acts were approved by British Parliament on June 26-June 2, 1767 and were repealed April 12, 1770. Charles Townshend proposed the program in order to raise 40,000 pounds a year so that the English parliament could cut the british land tax and this would also raise money to pay for the salaries of governors and judges. Some of the things that the Act taxed were paper, oil, lead, glass, and tea that went into American ports. Townshend knew that his program would be controversial in the colonies, but he argued that, "The superiority of the mother country can at no time be better exerted than now."
Fresh legislation restricting freedom of speech, writing and assembly was passed from 1792 to 1801, to reinforce these new laws the yeomanry were called in to reinforce these new laws. In 1792, two royal proclamations were issued against seditious writing such as the rights of man written by Tom Paine. These gave the home office the power to monitor the activities of the radical societies by using spies as well as other methods such as opening letters. However the home offices resources were very limited with staff of less than 25. In 1794 Pitt moved against English radicals.
However, the many taxes passed by the British Parliament hindered their progress, upsetting the colonists. One of the first significant taxes was the Sugar Act of 1763, enacted by the british parliament, which added a tax to sugar bought by the colonists. This tax enraged the colonists because they enjoyed the use of sugar and they didn’t want to have to pay more for it. The colonists, in response, began to smuggle sugar and other goods. The british, in response to the smuggling, set up a court without a jury present and the presumption was that the colonists were guilty.
This is comparative of doing things such as community service and other orders set by courts in modern day. This changed when the romans invaded Britain in 43AD. It was totally contrated from the peace keeping ways of the Celts. They wanted to instill fear into people and would go as far as sentencing someone to death. They indroduced a govenorship, Agricola initially put a stop to fraudulent practice when selling grain.
The Alien and Sedition Acts consisted of four bills that the government passed in 1798. The Acts were intended to protect Americans from their foreign enemies. The Acts made it harder for foreigner to become citizens, gave the president the power to deport or arrest suspicious people, and made malicious writing about the government illegal. The dispute over the Alien and Sedition Acts exposed bitter disagreements on a number of issues. Some of these important issues are immigration, concern of becoming a monarchy, and foreign policy.
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• As a result of the Salmon report they recognised they should control the immigration leading to them introducing the commonwealth immigration act 1962 to control immigration into Britain. Many people saw it as being racist as it would restrict entrants of their ethnic origins. • The Labour party opposed the Commonwealth Immigration act but in 1968 imposed their own. Both parties accepted they needed to limit the number of foreigners allowed to immigrate to England. As a result of the Immigration act the two years before it was put into place people fled to England in a hurry which led to many people wanting a full block of the number of those entering.
This resulted in a series of laws and protocols called the mercantile system. While this system had its benefits, it placed harsh restrictions on which the Americans could trade with. For example, as directed by the Navigation laws, Virginia tobacco planters who played by the rules could only sell their products to England, even if other countries were offering a higher price. The Americans answer to this was to largely ignore the mercantile system and smuggle their products to other ports. All colonies had some form of a two-house parliament system.
Some of which include the Sugar Act of 1764, Stamp Act of 1765, Quartering Act of 1765 and the Intolerable Act of 1774. The Intolerable Act put taxes on imported goods, this causing the greatest decline on British imports. The Colonists began to boycott goods and stand up for their rights. In a letter written by George Washington to Bryan Fairfax, Washington states that asking Britain to reduce taxes was wrong. Washington says that it would be asking for a favor to reduce taxes and than not claiming a right.
Shaton Andrews 3/13/14 2.04 Coming to America Immigration Guide to the USA. * Home country for the guide England * Immigration laws Some US Immagration laws may include the Alien Friends Act of 1798 which allows the president to deport any resident immigrant who is considered to be “dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States”. Another law would be the INA Amendments which set a 20k maximum limit for immigrants from any country. * What the journey may be like The journey will be very long and tiresome. They may be travelling in cramped, unsanitary quarters, they can face sickness.