Why were the colonist determined to be economically independent after the Townshend Acts werepassed?

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Could you not have simply Googled it yourself?

"The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 ..."

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