What effect did the Townshed acts have on the American colonies

It took away some freedoms from the colonists like new taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.

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