History with Geek Girl

 Hello history friends!! I must apologize. I lied when I said we were skipping a year because nothing happened in 1767. Something super important happened!! The Townshend Acts! *dun dun dun!!!* It seems that the British were quite confused for a few minutes why the colonies were mad about the Stamp Act. They didn't want to be embarrassed like that again, so they talked to Benjamin Franklin. Now, keep in mind that at this point, nobody was really thinking of independence. They just wanted representation. Franklin was in the same boat. He was well respected at Parliament, though, so they often discussed these issues  with him. He told them again, what the colonials had been saying "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION," but did they listen? No. Instead, they listened to Charles Townshend. He was the treasurer and a big money and economics guy. He had this brilliant idea (at least, he thought it was brilliant). He was like, "Hey! Instead of directly shilling and pencing t...

 Hello history friends!! We're just going to jump right in to the Sugar Act, since we mentioned it last time. I keep saying we. It's just me. I'm one person. But I like to think of anyone listening as part of this, so now we're we. I will probably jump back and forth between the me and we, so there's that. Let's get back to 1764. Ok, remember how I mentioned that there was some smuggling going on? Well, part of this was because after the French and Indian war, it was pretty frowned upon for colonists to buy lots of French products because the English pretty much ruled over us, ya know? Well, the Sugar act actually lowered the price of the duties the Americans were supposed to pay, but also started cracking down hardcore on smuggling AND increased the AMOUNT of things we were supposed to pay taxes on. Instead of sugar and molasses like before, now there were taxes on indigo, coffee, wine, silks, bengals (no- these are not tiger hides- these are thin fabricy thing...