Did the Townshend Act Replace the Stamp Act?

The Townshend Acts were specifically to pay for the salaries of officials such as governors and judges. The British thought that the colonists would be okay with taxes on imports. They had repealed an earlier tax called the Stamp Act because of colonial protests, but thought that taxes on imports would be okay.

Was the Townshend Act after the Stamp Act?

Raising revenue

The first of the Townshend Acts, sometimes simply known as the Townshend Act, was the Revenue Act 1767. This act represented the Chatham ministry's new approach to generating tax revenue in the American colonies after the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766.

How did the Stamp Act lead to the Townshend Act?

In 1767, a year after the repeal of the Stamp Act, Parliament approved another revenue raising taxation in the colonies, the Townshend Acts. Because duties and import procedures were so overwhelming for trading businesses they avoided paying taxes by smuggling goods into the colony and so did Hancock. ...