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What was the main reason the British levied taxes on the American colonies in the 1760s? to punish the colonists for their protests to fund shipbuilding and trade in the colonies to raise money for defending the colonists’ territory to pay for colonial representation in Parliament

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to raise money for defending the colonists’ territory

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its C

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