Britain needed money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies.The colonist protested, saying that these taxes violated their rights as British citizens. The colonists started to resist by boycotting, or not buying, British goods.
It was because Nixon could get his country (the US) to gain from it. Economic and Political reasons, for the most part.
There are about 7,643,402,521
people in the world. However there are people being born and dying every few seconds. So as of right now there is 7.74 billion people! :)
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a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.