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USA INDEPENDENCE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - USA INDEPENDENCE
        
        The war started after years of problems between the British Empire and the colonists of North America, especially Roanoke after the French and Indian War.
        
        There were 13 colonies, and the colonists (people living in the colonies) did not like many of the actions of the British Government.
        
        The British government decided which countries could trade with the colonies, instead of the colonies deciding it themselves.
      - 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 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.
        
        This disagreement was aggravated after the Seven Years War of England against France (1748-1756), in which the inhabitants of the colonies collaborated with troops and victuals so that the English could seize all the French lands in North America.
    - - That led a group of discontents to form a secret society, the Sons of Liberty
        
        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. This is what is known as El motín de té de Boston.
  - - - THE BRITISH DEFEAT
        
        The 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 defeat of the British in Saratoga, north of New York, in October 1777, was important.
        
        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.
        
        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
        
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      - The Continental Congress met in Philadelphia intending to vote for independence from England.
        
        Congress selected a committee to draft a declaration of independence.
        
        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, these rights contain the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Being independent and becoming their ruler, the colonies would create a government that abides by these rules.
        
        On July 4, 1776, Congress approved by unanimously the Declaration of Independence of the United States
        
        The declaration justified the war. Besides, he presented a long list of complaints against King George III of England.
        
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    - - 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.
  - - - 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.
        
        Washington shied away from a battle campal and, rather, used a system of "guerrilla warfare".