The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. The Stamp Act imposed duties on most legal documents in the colonies and on newspapers and other publications. After the Stamp Act was repealed, the Townshend Act were created and imposed import duties on tea, paper, glass, red and white lead, and painter's colors. Both provoked a major imperial crisis. George Grenville passed the Sugar Act which put a tax on sugar that was imported from the West Indies. This act was passed also because the French and Indian War had left Britain with an empty wallet, so Parliament also desperately needed to restock the Treasury.
