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America (NOT COMPLETE) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - They issued paper money to help with the costs of the war.
      - They made George Washington the commander of the new Continental Army.
  - - - All powers not specifically granted to congress were reserved by the states. Congress had no right to enforce taxes or regulate trade.
      - All states had to agree to any amendment of the constitution.
- - - - In 1778, 41% of the British navy was in American waters but by 1780 this dropped to only 13%.
      - The intervention of the French fleet at Chesapeake Bay was vital in the defeat of the British in Yorktown in 1781.
      - Until 1778, 65% of the British army was in North America but by 1780 this dropped to 20% as the British were going on the defensive for a possible invasion.
      - By 1781, Spanish forces had cleared British troops from the Mississippi valley
  - - - The recognition of American Independence and it’s new boundaries.
      - The division of imperial possessions between Britain, France and Spain. Spain gained Florida and Minorca; Britain regained the Bahamas; France regained St Luca, Goree and Pondicherry and retained Tobago; Britain returned Trincomalee to Holland but regained Negapatam in India.
  - - - In 1780, the British altered the mercantilist system in Ireland, which was causing protest, to allow Ireland to trade directly with British colonies.
      - In 1782, the Irish were granted effective legislative independence as the British repealed the Declaratory Act 1719 (An Act for the better securing the dependency of the Kingdom of Ireland on the Crown of Great Britain)