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$1$ pts

Explain how a British person living in North America in the $1750$s might consider this question: Am I an actual British subject living here in North America, or am I a North American, living under a foreign British government?

The growing prosperity of the colonists continued to pull them away from Britain's control of economic policy $($particularly in the form of mercantilism$),$ but they also needed the defense and protection of the larger British empire $--$ so not quite British but not yet independent

The British government passed a series of laws in this period degrading the quality and protections of British subjects in the colonies $($including in India$)$ because they were growing fearful of local colonial elites becoming too powerful and too wealthy $--$ so definitely anti$-$British and anti$-$representative government

The growing pressure of French settlements in North America and in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys in particular were leading many of the colonials to consider joining under a French union or a French alignment rather than a British one $--$ so not quite British but probably European

The introduction of a much more vigorous regime of taxation was accompanied by an $"$ expansion of political representation within Parliament, giving the colonists a major demand that they had pressed $--$ so not living in Britain but enjoying British rights