Summary

The Stamp and Townshend Acts were acts passed by British Parliament that effected the American colonies. The Stamp Act required all colonists to buy a stamp with the purchase any paper products. This meant whenever they purchsed every day items, such as newspapers, they had to pay extra for a stamp. This act helped build up to the Boston Tea Party. The Townshend Act was an after effect to the Boston Tea Party. It made colonists pay taxes on certain items imported by the colonists. This act happened in 1767. All in all, the Stamp and Townshend Acts were both effective to the American colonies. The colonies did not find either of them fair.