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Economically it was a good move. You have settlers in N.A. growing, mining, cutting, or whatever the Natural Resources. They send them to Britain. Britain turns them into manufactured goods which they sell to people in Britain, trade with other countries, and ... also sell back to the British colonists.

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The Virgina Company was a profit business. The profit let them change the company plan. this company had GOLD.

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The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.


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It is the Northern Americas which Britain occupied the most.


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