The Townshend Acts were repealed by Britain's Parliament by the efforts of Prime Minister Frederick North, with the exception of the increased duties on imported tea. The American colonists, in turn, stopped their embargo on British imports.
The black panther party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect the citizens against police brutality. They followed Malcolm X's belief of international working class unity across the spectrum of color and gender. They also embraced the theory of dialect materialism. This is the idea that political and historical events result from the conflict of social forces caused by materialism.
As Europeans moved beyond exploration and into colonization of the Americas, they brought changes to virtually every aspect of the land and its people, from trade and hunting to warfare and personal property. European goods, ideas, and diseases shaped the changing continent.
The Europeans brought technologies, ideas, plants, and animals that were new to America and would transform peoples' lives: guns, iron tools, and weapons; Christianity and Roman law; sugarcane and wheat; horses and cattle. They also carried diseases against which the Indian peoples had no defenses.
It was a reaction to the strong central British government which they felt was too powerful and infringed on their rights. They thought a weaker central government would not be powerful enough to interfere with the rights of the states and people.
