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USA INDEPENDENCE, KAYLE CULCAY 9 "A" - Coggle Diagram

- - - - USA INDEPENDENCE
        
        The war began after years of trouble between the British Empire (The RedCoats) and the North American settlers, especially Roanoke after the French and Indian War.
        
        There were 13 colonies, and the colonists (people who live in the colonies) did not like many of the actions of the British government. For years the British government decided with which countries the colonists could trade, the colonists only sought free trade.
      - In 1765, the British Parliament needed 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 documents, newspapers, and even playing cards, as other Britons 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.
        
        This disagreement was aggravated after England's Seven Years War against France (1748-1756), in which the colonists collaborated with troops and supplies so that the English could seize all the French lands in North America. But the colonies had not deserved an improvement in the deal, on the contrary, they raised taxes on sugar, tea and paperwork.
    - - It was December 16, 1773, and after capturing the crew, they threw a total of 45 tons of tea overboard, which inevitably sank. It is what is known as The Boston Tea Party.
  - - - 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.
        
        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."
      - 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.
        
        On July 4, 1776, Congress approved by unanimously the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
    - - Great Britain realized that was the beginning of a war, so appoints William Howe as the leader of his army, he commanded the largest expeditionary force Britain had ever amassed, confronting the rebel army under George Washington and enjoying a string of victories
  - - - The Second Continental Congress arranged to organize an army, appointed 14 generals and placed them under the command of George Washington, who had some military experience. Britain realized that it was a war and not just a revolt, it sent an army of men, commanded by Sir William Howe.