ause of the long distance to travel between both places; it left the colonies both physically and spiritually separated from the New World. The colonies knew that distance weakens authority, but great distances weaken authority even more. The American environment also nurtured the feelings of independence because of the unchanging surroundings of England, coming to the New World offered a change of pace for the colonies because they now had their own world to make anew. Finally, many of the colonies joined together in the common sense of individuality that Britain was unfit to govern them and that the colonies !
             The feeling of individuality caused tension to grow in the relationship between Britain and America. Tensions first arose when the London government issued the Pr
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