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King George III, British Monarch over
American Colonies
The Townshend Duties
Source: Barbier, Brooke. Boston in the
American Revolution: A Town Versus an Empire.
Charleston: The History Press, 2017.
"Charles Townshend, the member of Parliament who
proposed the plan - required colonists to pay
taxes on imported British goods, including tea,
glass, paper and clothing. These duties were
passed for the same reasons that the Sugar and
Stamp Acts were: to pay for the cost of running
the North American Empire. Parliament sent new
customs officials to Boston (Barbier, 50, 53)."
"Massachusetts wasted little time opposing the
Townshend Duties, with the House of
Representatives petitioning the king for their
repeal. James Otis Jr., Samuel Adams and John
Hancock helped draft the petition (Barbier,
51)."
- Education:
First American medical school to grant the
M.D. degree
at Kings College, now Columbia University, see 1769
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