The Relationship Between the British North American Colonies and the Government Back in England

The relationship between the British North American colonies and the government back in England are mainly political, economic, and religious.

The English government didn't pay a lot of attention to the colonies at first. They thought it was just a neglect land. But later, with the economic value was discovered, the government changed their mind. The nation took the rights to the colonies. James II created the "Dominion of New England" under a central authority to enforce the Navigation Acts (DOCUMENT 1). They changed the policies to the colonies. They forbid producing products in colonies, so that they could get high imports and exports for England. They also made new colonies, like New York and New Jersey. And the authority gave colonies to family propriety or reward (DOCUMENT 5). They used these colonies to compete with Spain in economy and territories also. Though there were some political relationships between England and North America, but the main relationship was economy.

The English settlers came to America from the beginning just for economic profits. They wanted to find gold like Spanish colonists. They later began to grow tobacco. At that time Virginia was the only place in the world to produce tobacco. English government saw the highly return profits benefitted it, their wealth increased by selling tobacco. And this made the authority and Virginia Company established more colonies. But they put on high taxes unjustly (DOCUMENT 2). People in the colonies began to complain and revolt. But the government thought the colonies were supposed to serve, and tied tightly to the mother country, which worse the problem. The English government got a lot of profits from colonies, but they also made the colonists' dissatisfied.

Another relationship of the colony and England is political. At first the Englishmen came to also for the religious reason. They came to America because they wanted to create an independent congregation. Those religious people came to America to form a place where their beliefs can be echoed. Puritan came to American to create Massachusetts--- a strict religious colony. But later, William Penn and Roger Williams created two new colonies that enjoyed total religious freedom--- Pennsylvania and Rhode Island for those who in England had different opinions in religious can find a place to stay.

The primarily relationship between British North American colonies and the government in England was economy, though not purely so. They strongly tied with their moth