How Did The American Revolution Affect British Merchants

British merchants were greatly affected by the colonists determined boycott protests, that they begged parliament to stop the Stamp Act. February 1766, the Act was canceled. But the British didn’t stop, they were resilient and came up with newer Acts and ways of taxing the American colonies. The British parliament passed Acts such as the Declaratory Act, the Townshend Act, the Tea Act and the Coercive Act that further angered the colonists by making them feel restricted, ignored and unfairly treated. 4

1676, Charles Townshend, new finance minister, came up with the Townshend Act. This Act taxed imported British goods, paid upon entry of port such as glass tea, and paper. Goods that the colonists did not produce themselves. This enraged the