According to the drafters of the declaration of independence what is one reason the king made it difficult for people to acquire land

George II of England, in a effort to secure North America for England and prevent Spanish colonization offered to grant "fifty pounds Sterling" and fifty acres of land to each Protestant (intentionally excluding Roman Catholics) who would settle in the new world. All of my ancestors (each man, woman and child) from Germany between 1744 and 1769 paid their manumission and passage and received land.