Multiple Choice
How did the Stamp Act crisis of 1765 compare to the crisis over the Townshend duties in 1768?
A) The Americans were victors in the first crisis,but in the second they had to retreat and accept humiliating British terms,which they resolved to throw off at the first opportunity.
B) The stakes had risen: In 1765,American resistance to taxation had provoked an argument in Parliament;in 1768,it produced a British plan for military coercion.
C) The Americans won both confrontations,reinforcing convictions in Parliament that the colonies were not to be trifled with;only George III and Lord North stubbornly kept demanding concessions.
D) The two crises had the cumulative effect of greatly increasing the strength of England's pro-American radicals,led by John Wilkes,in Parliament.
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