Up until the French and Indian war, England largely ignored its American colonies, so the colonists were left alone to govern themselves.
After the war the British incurred a huge debt as a result of the cost used to make it a success. This made the British adopt measures such as taxation to pay it off. They heavily taxed their colonists which led to a backlash and subsequent revolutionary war between the British and the colonists.
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