In 1681, King Charles II<span> gave a large piece of his American </span>land<span> holdings to </span>Penn<span> to get rid of the debts the king owed to </span>Penn's<span> father.</span>
Answer: The attempts by Britain to tax its North American colonists in the late 1700s led to arguments, war, the expulsion of British rule and the creation of a new nation.
