George Greenville Vice Admiralty Courts: Some scholars do not include the Vice Admiralty Court Act with the other Townshend laws. The law was passed to aid in the prosecution of smugglers. It gave royal naval courts, rather than colonial courts, jurisdiction over all matters related to customs offenses and smuggling added three new royal admiralty courts in Boston, Philadelphia and Charleston to aid more effective prosecutions. These courts were run by Crown-appointed judges who were awarded 5% of any fine the judge imposed when they found someone guilty. Laoque was considered a fundamental right of British subjects.
Patrick Henry: was an American lawyer, planter, politician and orator well known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty or give me death!" A Founding Father, served as the first and sixth Governors postcolonial Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786
. Stamp Act Congress: Also known as the Continental Congress of 1765, it was a meeting held in New York, New York, which consisted of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America. It was the first meeting of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against the new British taxes
.Sons of Liberty: The Sons of Liberty was a secret revolutionary organization that was founded by Samuel Adams in the Thirteen American Colonies to promote the rights of European settlers and fight British government taxes. It played an important role in most of the colonies in the fight against the Stamp Act in 1765. The group officially disbanded after the Stamp Act was repealed. However, the name was applied to other local separatist groups during the years before the American Revolution.
. Charles Townshend: He was a British politician who held various titles in the Parliament of Great Britain. His establishment of the controversial Townshend Acts is considered one of the key causes of the American Revolution.
Non-Import Agreement: The Boston Non-Import Agreement was an agreement that aimed to increase the production of domestic products and make them more important in society.
It was these instances that promoted the unity of the colonies and convened in 1774 the first continental Congress
Boston Tea Party: The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. It allowed the British East India Company to sell tea from China to the American colonies. without paying taxes other than those imposed by the laws of Townshend. American Patriots strongly opposed the Townshend Act taxes as a violation of their rights. The protesters, some disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.
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