The need for colonial legislatures to raise taxes to provide for their defense in the 1750s was frustrated in Pennsylvania by
A) the insistence of the Penn family, which still controlled the colony, not to be taxed on their own lands to maximize their revenue.
B) a highly organized popular opposition led by prominent Pennsylvania citizen, Benjamin Franklin.
C) a badly divided Pennsylvania legislature on the issue of raising taxes in the colony.
D) the opposition of the royal governor who succeeded the one appointed by the Penn family in 1757.
ANSWER
Answer: A
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