This question has two parts. Answer Part A, and then answer Part B.
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What does the passage indicate was ,begin emphasis,another,end emphasis, colonial response to the Townshend Act, in addition to the boycott of British goods?
Question 1 Answer options with 4 options
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The colonists began looking for new ways to make paper.
2.
The colonists immediately began preparing for the coming war.
3.
The colonists refused to allow the British to collect taxes in port cities.
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The colonists opened factories to make goods that previously were imported.
Question 2
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Which excerpt from the passage ,begin emphasis,best,end emphasis, supports the correct answer from Part A?
Question 2 Answer options with 4 options
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"In 1767, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Charles Townshend, promoted a piece of legislation that placed added taxes on various British goods that the Americans imported, including glass, lead, painters' pigments, tea—and paper. Townshend's legislation passed into law, and the British established a bureau in Boston to enforce the new duties." (Paragraph 4)
2.
"The movement started in the North and quickly caught on in the South." (Paragraph 5)
3.
"New York newspapers declared that those who bought British goods were 'enemies to their Country.' In Philadelphia, newspapers preferred the phrase 'an Enemy to the Liberties of America.'" (Paragraph 5)
4.
"In 1769 the first type made in America was cut and cast in Killingworth, Connecticut, by Abel Buell. That same year, the first American-made printing presses went on sale, manufactured in New Haven by Isaac Doolittle." (Paragraph 6)
Part A: The passage indicates that, in addition to the boycott of British goods, another colonial response to the Townshend Act was the colonists opening factories to make goods that previously were imported.
Part B: The excerpt that best supports the correct answer from Part A is option 4: "In 1769 the first type made in America was cut and cast in Killingworth, Connecticut, by Abel Buell. That same year, the first American-made printing presses went on sale, manufactured in New Haven by Isaac Doolittle." This excerpt mentions the colonists opening factories to produce goods that were previously imported.