What are some differences between the British
and American colonists?

Differences Between Great Britain and the Colonies
Over the course of most of the eighteenth century, a distinctive culture began to emerge in America. Farmers, workers and artisans lived in remote areas and had little contact with government. American thinking, in the hands of intellectuals, developed around concepts of personal freedom and human rights based on British traditions such as the Magna Carta, as well as the beginnings of democracy in ancient Athens and the much-admired Roman Republic.
Lifestyle and philosophical thinking, however, in themselves would not be enough to light the fires of rebellion. Americans learn in school that a series of taxes, and the way the British imposed them, took care of that. In truth, a great deal of economic friction between the two sides predated the tax controversies by at least fifty years. Both sides wanted to run commerce in their own way, especially trade in sugar, and in that intoxicating product of sugar, rum. The rum and sugar trade brought the institution of slavery in its wake, which would later bring the United States its greatest crisis.