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…showed last 75 words of 647 total…Britain for protection from the French but now that they were no longer a threat, the colonies could gain their independence. The British began to enforce more laws preventing the colonist from settling further west. This was viewed by the colonists as something done to hurt them, but it actually was a supposed to help to prevent unwanted contacts with angry natives. These laws were ignored. The American Revolution was on the brink of beginning.