Answer: Britain also needed money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies. They decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to help pay for the French and Indian War. ... The colonists started to resist by boycotting, or not buying, British goods.
They protected the Colonies both in general (the British Navy was the best in the world at the time) and during the Seven-Year War, when France and the UK fought over the rights to the Ohio River Valley.
