a) They are elected by popular vote for 6 years
The answer is money. It was believed that if they found a shorter way to Asia that they could access the trading market more easily and avoid middle-men and things like that. They could open companies there and trade for much less money and earn much more. However, he ended up in the Americas, not India.
Because the stamp act placed taxes on everything the colonists used.
People would be in danger
