Name: Townshend Acts
Duration: 178
Description: Learn the basics about the Townshend Acts, a series of laws that intensified colonial rage toward the British crown in the 1760s.

Learn the basics about the Townshend Acts, a series of laws that intensified colonial rage toward the British crown in the 1760s.

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