In 1767, Charles Townshend, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, imposed a series of new taxes designed to raise revenue. Colonists organized boycotts of British goods to pressure Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts.
Like the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts produced controversy and protest in the American colonies. For a second time, many colonists resented what they perceived as an effort to tax them without representation and thus to deprive them of their liberty.
