What was difficult for the British government to maintain tight control over the colonies

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British leaders also felt the need to tighten control over the empire. To be sure, laws regulating imperial trade and navigation had been on the books of generation but American conolist were notorious for evading these regulations... Thus the British begans there attempts to reformreform the imperial system...

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