All the taxes England dumped on them had to do with it too. They had natural resources, and they had the goods that other places wanted. So when America started circumventing all the British mandates of trade and started smuggling, England slapped on tax after tax after tax.The British participated in te revolution because they thought that they had an advantage over everybody, they sent 32,000 thousands troops to try and defeat the Patorits. The affects of the colonists defeating the British, the colonists became its country, which made the British very weak.