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…showed last 75 words of 1008 total…direct representation could not understand how Parliament could represent them when they were four thousand miles away. As the colonies and Britain drifted apart, a distinctly American nationality emerged in the colonies. However, because of the great distance between the North America and England, neither of them noticed just how different they were becoming. This caused much tension and misunderstandings between the colonies and their mother country. This tension would soon lead to a revolution.