Why did Prime Minister Charles Townshend choose to impose new duties on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea in 1767?
A) He wanted colonists to use less of these goods.
B) He wanted to retaliate against the colonists' nonimportation movement.
C) He believed that such "external taxes" would not stir controversy in the colonies.
D) He knew that colonists could not live without any of these goods.
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