USA Idependece
In 1765, the British Parliament needing money for the French and Indian War, and passed a law called the Stamp Act. This law said that colonists had to buy stamps for legal papers, newspapers, and even playing cards, as other British people did. The money from the stamps went to the King. The colonies did not follow this law. The colonies kept refusing to do what the King wanted.
The Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre caused people to become angrier about the situation. The British sent more soldiers to keep control of the colonies and sometimes had to fight. In 1774, the British passed the Intolerable Acts.
The bearable relationship of the colonies with Great Britain was shattered by the British Crown's attempt to extract more taxes. It was unhappy because the settlers had no representatives in the London Parliament to make their position heard.
A series of peaceful demonstrations, especially in Boston, the colonial capital, had no echo. That led a group of discontents to form a secret society, the Sons of Liberty, who assaulted, disguised as Indians, three ships of the East India Company that had arrived from Great Britain with a large cargo of tea. It was December 16, 1773, and after capturing the crew, they threw over 342 barrels overboard with a total of 45 tons of tea, which sank irretrievably.
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A series of peaceful demonstrations, especially in Boston, the colonial capital, had no echo. That led a group of discontents to form a secret society, the Sons of Liberty, who assaulted, disguised as Indians, three ships of the East India Company that had arrived from Great Britain with a large cargo of tea. It was December 16, 1773, and after capturing the crew, they threw over 342 barrels overboard with a total of 45 tons of tea, which sank irretrievably.
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The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes.
The situation was festering and parting and the war broke out. The first shots were crossed in the town of Lexington on April 19, 1775. In May the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia itself. It made arrangements to organize an army, appointed 14 generals and put them under the command of George Washington, who was a rich landowner of Virginia, 43 years old
American Revolution
The battle began on April 19, 1775, in Lexington and Concord Massachusetts On June 14, 1775, Also, George Washington takes command of the newly designated Continental Army.
Great Britain realized that was the beginning of a war, so appoints William Howe as the leader of his army. From 1775 to 1777, Howe commanded the largest expeditionary force Britain had ever amassed, confronting the rebel army under George Washington and enjoying a string of victories.
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Declaration of Idependece
The Continental Congress met in Philadelphia intending to vote for independence from England. In anticipation of this vote, Congress selected a committee to draft a declaration of independence. The committee, composed of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman, in turn, instructed Thomas Jefferson to write the declaration.
The declaration of independence is a document written by Thomas Jefferson on July 4th, 1776. It proclaimed the right to independence for the American colonies to separate from Great Britain. The declaration of independence starts by describing the reasons why it’s so important and required to claim their independence. For example, “All men are created equal”.
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On July 4, 1776, Congress approved by unanimously the Declaration of Independence of the United States. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington, who later became presidents of the nation, were among the 56 members of Congress, in addition to the scientist Benjamin Franklin. During the war, 14 of the signatories died.
The British Defeat
Great Britain came to have, in 1778, in North America, about 50,000 well-trained soldiers, about 18,000 mercenaries Germans they hired for the race; they used half of his powerful fleet; inflicted a series of initial defeats of the settlers, and faced an inexperienced army, but the war was not a "triumphant ride" for the British, as they predicted.
The defeat of the British in Saratoga, north of New York, in October 1777, was important. From there, France arrived openly in the war: supported with money, arms, and armies of sea and land. Spain, which supported the rebels with money, arms, and ammunition, was still reluctant to direct intervention.
he Americans were successful in shunning open battles and attacking with skirmishes; that made them more dangerous than "if they had a large regular army." It was key, for the revolutionaries, the development of the Pennsylvania model rifle, of great precision from more than 80 meters. It was a more effective weapon than the ancient and imprecise muskets.
In 1781 they surrendered the last English redoubt in Yorktown, in front of a French fleet and a combined French-American army of 16,000 men, under the command of George Washington. On September 3, 1783, the treaty was signed by which Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States
George Washington was elected the first president of EE. UU in 1789, under the terms of the Constitution of 1787, and the oldest in the world, because it is maintained until now with only a few amendments.