Use the excerpt from the publication Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, written by John Dickinson, to answer the question. There is another late act of parliament, which appears to me to be unconstitutional, and as destructive to the liberty of these colonies . . . that is, the act for granting the duties on paper, glass, etc. The parliament unquestionably possesses a legal authority to regulate the trade of Great Britain, and all her colonies. Such an authority is essential to the relation between a mother country and her colonies; and necessary for the common good of all . . . [But] never did the British parliament . . . think of imposing duties in America for the purpose of raising a revenue. . . . [With the Townshend Acts] we may observe an authority expressly claimed and exerted to impose duties on these colonies; not for the regulation of trade . . . but for the single purpose of levying money upon us. According to this excerpt, what was the purpose of the Townshend Acts? (1 point) Responses to make the colonies more independent to make the colonies more independent to take money from the colonists to take money from the colonists to maintain the colonies’ connection to England to maintain the colonies’ connection to England to regulate trade in the British Empire

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Use the excerpt from the publication Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, written by John Dickinson, to answer the question. There is another late act of parliament, which appears to me to be unconstitutional, and as destructive to the liberty of these colonies . . . that is, the act for granting the duties on paper, glass, etc. The parliament unquestionably possesses a legal authority to regulate the trade of Great Britain, and all her colonies. Such an authority is essential to the relation between a mother country and her colonies; and necessary for the common good of all . . . [But] never did the British parliament . . . think of imposing duties in America for the purpose of raising a revenue. . . . [With the Townshend Acts] we may observe an authority expressly claimed and exerted to impose duties on these colonies; not for the regulation of trade . . . but for the single purpose of levying money upon us. According to this excerpt, what was the purpose of the Townshend Acts? (1 point) Responses to make the colonies more independent to make the colonies more independent to take money from the colonists to take money from the colonists to maintain the colonies’ connection to England to maintain the colonies’ connection to England to regulate trade in the British Empire

Answer 1

According to the excerpt from John Dickinson's "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania," the purpose of the Townshend Acts was "to take money from the colonists." Dickinson emphasizes that the British Parliament was imposing duties not for the regulation of trade, but specifically for the purpose of levying money upon the colonies.