<span>The United States needed access to raw materials and different regions for American-made goods.</span>
With the French and Indian War over, many colonists<span> saw no </span>need<span> for soldiers to be stationed in the </span>colonies<span>. </span>Britain<span> also </span>needed<span> money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to </span>tax the colonies<span>. Cred: Www.historyisfun.org</span>
The term "carpetbaggers" refers to Northerners<span> who moved to the South after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. Many carpetbaggers were said to have moved South for their own financial and political gains. Scalawags were white </span>Southerners <span>who cooperated politically with black </span>freedmen<span> and Northern newcomers.</span>
One of the main reasons why British Parliament levied <span>taxes on goods imported by the colonists was to pay for the French and Indian War, since the British argued that the war had been fought primarily to defend the colonists. </span>
