The Townsend Acts
A)are anti-trust laws passed in the U.S.in the 1930's to limit monopoly power.
B)allow district attorneys the opportunity to plea bargain with accused criminals.
C)were British laws enacted in the 1760's that imposed taxes on products imported to the American colonies, leading (in part) to the Boston Tea Party.
D)were enacted in the late 1800's to permit regulation of natural monopolies.

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The Townsend Acts were a series of British Acts of Parliament passed during the 1760s that imposed taxes on various goods imported to the American colonies, such as paper, tea, glass, and others. This taxation without representation was a major grievance for the colonists and contributed to the growing unrest that eventually led to the American Revolution, including events like the Boston Tea Party.