a. True
b. False
1. Colonists wealth: Because of lenient taxes before the start of British taxes, and the payments Britain made before to to-be-colonists to move away, as well as the finding of material wealth in present-day-USA, colonists were much more well off then the British.
2. Heavy taxation on the people living in Britian: The citizens in Britian were already paying large amount of taxes, and could not sustain more taxes on themselves, leading the British to think about their colonies.
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Many colonists had become wealthy at a time when Britain did not have much wealth.