Friday, June 29, 2007

The Townshend Acts, which placed an import duty on a whole bunch of stuff, tea for example, coming into America from Britain were enacted on this day in 1767. The colonists were somewhat displeased with this.



Though a financial burden, the longest lasting result of the Townshend Acts were the American tradition of tea parties. Tea parties, though the efforts of the Daughters of The American Revolution have become so essential to a young girl's life that even anti-social young women like Lucy Van Pelt enjoy them.