Exploration, Conquest, Conflicts/ rivalries
Your answer is A!
they wanted to preserve their ethnic identity!
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Explanation:
The colonists disputed the legality of this Act because it seemed to violate the Bill of Rights of 1689. British officers who had fought in the French and Indian War found it hard to persuade colonial assemblies to pay for quartering and provisioning of their troops.