The government is crooked
The Ten Commandments are found in Judaism, and variants of Christianity such as Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Protestantism, etc. They are not all the same however, as sometimes the order is different or the sins mentioned are different. The big ones are the same however such as don't kill or don't have other gods.
They new the land since they lived in it, the British were in unfamiliar lands. 2, the British had to cross the Atlantic to transport troops and supplies, the colonies supply line was much shorter
Industrial revolution brought many jobs to the economy and invented many many things
