One result of the disorder in the colonies following passage of the 1767 Townshend Act was:
a. several hundred British troops were shifted from New York to Boston
b. petitions from colonial merchants forced Parliament to repeal the laws
c. many conservative leaders feared that the turmoil in New England would lead to war
d. many suspected smugglers were imprisoned
A
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A) was a writer and philosopher of the Enlightenment. B) believed there are limitations to observation and reason. C) was the author of Critique of Pure Reason. D) was a philosopher who rejected science as the ultimate knowledge of the real and proposed a return to the understanding that there were questions science cannot answer, but only morality and religion could. E) All of these