Britain wanted to expand trade and needed more resources from the colonies.
Dividing the newly discovered lands outside Europe and Portugal and the Crown of Castile.
Answer:
The Spanish were looking for gold and silver and wanted to convert the natives to Catholosim.
It was a reaction from the colonist for Great Britain taxing the colonies so much. It led to more tension because it was a straight forward act against Great Britain, and one that was slightly violet. It was showing Great Britain that the colonist were definitely fed up with how they were being traeted by the mother country.
