trade goods
Because the British government needed to pay for the French and Indian War
Because the British government needed to pay for the French and Indian War
Like most colonies, the French colonies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were economically linked to France. Their economies depended on the French buying their products and the manufactured goods the French sold to them. Former colonies want to start out strong and cutting ties to the mother country, and thus forcing a complete overhaul of the economy, is not a good way to do it.
Most colonies the French established were to create a convenient system to transport items and goods from or for trades.
England hope to acquire wealth from the colonies by getting Natural Resources, taxing goods traded in the colonies, and selling its own goods to the colonies.
The Townshend Acts taxed the goods being imported to the colonies.
raw goods
The Suez Canal has a strategic location. It linked the British & the French to their colonies & reduced the time to export goods.
colonies
they had to pay tax on the goods
Some French colonies had strong independence movements.