<span>Parliament kept trying different ways of raising revenue from the colonies to finance the debts they incurred in recent years. They incurred a huge debt financing the Seven Year's War and were trying to get the colonies to help pay for it.</span>
Because they belived the Manchos Dynasty had lost the Mandate of Heaven
If affected American Trade in the west because it prevented the travel through Louisiana, which resulted in less trade, thus an economic defect.
The mexican war resulted in additional territory and their was controversy in whether slavery should be allowed in the new territory.
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