Colonial Tensions Between The Colonies And Great Britain

As the British government placed tax after tax on the colonies, tensions began to develop. The colonies were only founded to make their mother countries rich. Also, Great Britain had to pay for the French and Indian war and for keeping 10,000 British troops in North America to protect the colonies. So, they began the Parliament began to tax the colonists. This upset many colonists and tensions between the colonies and Great Britain began to build.