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USA INDEPENDECE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The British sent more soldiers to keep control of the colonies and sometimes had to fight. In 1774, the British passed the Intolerable Acts.
        
        It was unhappy because the settlers had no representatives in the London Parliament to make their position heard.
        
        This disagreement was aggravated after the Seven Years War of England against France (1748-1756)
        
        But the colonies had not deserved an improvement in the deal, on the contrary, England responded by raising taxes on sugar, tea, and paperwork.
- - - - 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.
        
        When Great Britain realized that it was a war and not just a revolt, he sent an army of 30,000 men, under Sir William Howe, to New York, a city that thought itself more favorable to the Crown, leaving Boston where they were very unpopular.
- - - - On September 3, 1783, the treaty was signed by which Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States and returned to Spain, France, and Holland several possessions, although Canada maintained.
        
        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.