this agreement within one month from the date hereof; excepting it shall appear he has been unavoidably prevented from doing the same And every subscriber who shall nor strictly and literally adhere to this agreement, according to the true intent and meaning hereof, ought to be treated with the utmost contempt (King, Peter. “Charleston). This goes to prove that the colonists were very serious about getting the Townshend Acts repealed because they really saw how it was damaging a developing market economy. In 1770 the British Parliament cut the Townshend Acts back. The boycott of goods by the colonists eventually led to a reduction in British profits. The Parliament withdrew all of the Townshend Act taxes with the exception of the tax on tea. This also led to the end of the Non-Importation agreement among merchants and traders throughout the colonies but it did not end the boycott outright. They still boycotted some goods being imported into the colonies.The Tea Act of 1773 was the act that eventually caused the Boston Tea Party and the Coercive Acts of 1774. These events would bring the colonies to a boiling point, which eventually caused the movement for Independence to get going strong. The Tea Act of 1773 had reduced the tax on imported British tea because the British East India Company was just about bankrupt. This in turn gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sales. According to the Tea Act itself, it gave, “…British merchants an unfair advantage in selling their tea in America” (The Tea Act). Also the Tea Act stated, “that it placed a three penny per pound import tax on tea” (The Tea Act). Philadelphia drafted resolutions on the Tea Act on October 16, 1773. These resolutions were published in the Pennsylvania Gazette. One resolution stated, “…that the claim of Parliament to tax America is, in other words, a claim to levy contributions on us at pleasureR...
