Why did Britain need colonies?

Answer 1

for the reason of trade more markets to sale goods in
British wants the colonies cause the colonies have land in America and since the colonies were part of the British, the kind of the land, also after the French and Indian war the British were in debt, so they taxed the colonies to get back their money. In another ward the colonists were the servant of money. If the Britain didn't have the colonists they'd have no one to tax and get money from.

Answer 2

Two reasons- for it's economic prosperity, which enabled it to import and export produce and goods and so grow into a wealthy nation, and also for geopolitical security. The more nations that were absorbed into the British Empire, the stronger the British hold upon global affairs would be and the more say Britain would have in what happened in the world. It was effectively to secure British domination as a world power, and to ensure stability in the face of other powerful nations that had, in the past, been a threat to Britain, such as France and Russia. To a lesser extent it was also done for altruistic reasons, to bring Western standards of civilisation and behaviour to nations that had previously existed either in a state of tribal warfare or which had been ruled by tyrannical despots. They sought to bring an infrastructure, organised government and also Christianity to the peoples of their conquered nations (believing that Christianity was the only 'true' religion, although they could not stop nations such as India from remaining predominantly Hindu, or for Arab nations to remain mostly Islamic). The ideal behind the spread of the British Empire was called the 'Pax Britannica'- at it's height, the Empire covered one third of the Earth's entire land mass, and is the biggest and most powerful that the world has ever seen.

Answer 3

1. England needed the colonies because many raw materials they relied on such as lumber for ships, cotton for clothes, and tobacco came from here. We made them lots of money