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The Townshend Act had a few influential colonial responses, which includes a string of 12 essays written by John Dickinson. The essays were entitled Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvannia was first read in December 1767.
The townshend acts taxed against lead, glass, paints, paper, and  tea (imports). In the Townshend Acts, things like lead, paint, paper, glass, and tea were taxed. The goods taxed, included basic items-such as glass, tea, paper, and lead-had to import because the did not produce them. The Townshend Acts were a type of external tax. The Townshend Acts were enacted in 1767 and the colonists were opposed to it.