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# How the Townshend Acts Fueled a Resistance Movement
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/the-american-revolution/extras/how-the-townshend-acts-fueled-a-resistance-movement-oneb7e/
- Published: 2025-11-07T21:15:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-12T20:12:50.000Z
- Description: When the British imposed new taxes, women joined the Resistance Movement by the thousands.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: The American Revolution, #ZZZ_Show_f16516f8-e9bd-49d8-b49b-96781c68070a, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_b89c792d-ef89-4845-be45-223e49d31c48, #extra

In 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which imposed new taxes on four items manufactured in England — glass, lead, paper, painter’s colors — along with tea, grown in China but re-exported from Britain. Women, who normally played a subordinate role in public life and had almost no legal rights, joined the resistance by the thousands as “Daughters of Liberty.”