the british government has sent navies and armies to the coloniesA
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British laws that affected the colonies were made by the King and the British Parliament. The colonists had no voice in the laws.
After bowing to colonists' refusal of the Stamp Act, Parliament sought to establish immediate control of the situation and the colonies. It declared it had the full right to make laws to bind the people and colonies of America in all cases with or without Parliamentary representation. As can be expected, this did not go over well with the colonists who took it to mean there were going to be more aggressive attempts to subjugate them on the way
The British governed with little supervision of the American colonies before 1760.Britain's harsh tax and trade policies of the 1760s fanned resentment in the colonies.
the colonies did not think it was fair
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