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Suspending Act

Great Britain [1767]

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effect on American colonies

  • Townshend Acts
    In Townshend Acts

    The Suspending Act prohibited the New York Assembly from conducting any further business until it complied with the financial requirements of the Quartering Act (1765) for the expenses of British troops stationed there. The second act, often called the Townshend duties or the Revenue Act, imposed…

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  • English colonies in 17th-century North America
    In American colonies: The Townshend duties

    …in May 1767, of the Suspending Act, which prohibited the New York legislature from conducting any further business until it complied with the provisions of the Quartering Act. In addition, three more admiralty courts were created in 1768, at Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston. In the spring of that year, the…

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