What did the Townshend Duties do?
A) They required that all legal documents and newspapers be printed on special watermarked paper.
B) They set moderate tax rates on certain imported items to the colonies.
C) They imposed such heavy duties on imported goods that colonists could no longer afford to buy them.
D) They removed taxes on all items except those being shipped to the British West Indies.
E) They raised large amounts of revenue and helped to reduce the British treasury's serious deficit.
Question 2
What did the conflict over the Quartering Act demonstrate?
A) It showed that there was strong anticolonial sentiment in the House of Commons and that Parliament would not hesitate to defend its sovereignty.
B) It showed that there was a strong procolonial bloc in the House of Commons that was prepared to exert considerable pressure on the government to maintain good relations with the colonies.
C) It showed that neither the king nor Parliament particularly cared about the civil liberties of Americans as long as the colonies were paying their share of colonial defense.
D) It showed that the British government was caught in a dilemma of wanting to permit continued American self-governance but, at the same time, wanting to reassert at least the principle of parliamentary sovereignty.
E) It showed that King George III was, in reality, the main force within the British government restraining the ministry of Lord North from imposing a tyranny on the colonies.
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