In the 1600s, why didn’t the King of England always know what was happening in the American colonies?

News traveled slowly across the Atlantic in the 1600s, so reports from the American colonies could take a long time to reach England. The colonies’ great distance from the king made it difficult for him to know what was happening promptly. Therefore, the correct choice is that the colonies were far away and news took a long time to reach him.

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