The American Colonies: Achieving Independence From Great Britain

In 1776, the Continental Congress decided that they needed to declare independence from Great Britain. They wanted to inform the British that the colonies were now free and independent

“Despite the view of some historians that the conflict between Great Britain and its thirteen North American colonies was economic in origin, in fact the American Revolution had its roots in politics and other areas of American life.” Great Britain and the American colonies had a relationship impacted with many hardships. I believe that there was a political struggle between the two groups, but that Great Britain and the American colonies used economics as a chance to show how much control they had. Multiple Acts written by Parliament, the colonies' Committees of Correspondence and Continental Congress created political friction between Great Britain and the American colonies.

The thirteen British colonies of North America were slowly going into independence. The people (colonists) were proud of being British, they had no desire to separate from their own country. April 19, 1775 people made calls for independent. Also in that year of July the Second Continental Congress sent the King a request for redress and reconciliation, which Dickinson had to drain indubitably.

In conclusion, the American colonists were fully justified in their declaration of independence from Great Britain. The American colonists never deserved any of the punishment they received through taxes and the other means that were placed upon them. With the continuous counts of corruption acts being placed upon them, American colonist felt no choice but to revolt against the British. Before war commenced colonists made several attempts in peacefully expressing their disapproval, however, the attempts continued with results in

The colonists strongly desired independence and separation from Britain once taxation without representation was imposed on them. The colonies struggled to earn their representation in the Parliament of their mother country. They were turned down repeatedly and this caused huge issues for the colonists; it was the complete reason for the Revolutionary War. Therefore, the demand for no taxation without representation was the primary force to motivate America against Britain and it was also a symbol for democracy.

First of all, the colonists had no say or representation in the British Parliament including all laws. No taxation without representation! England did all of this because they thought the colonist needed to pay back taxes for protection in the war but these acts were too much to handle. Another reason is the Townshend and Stamp Act. These acts were way over the top and made the colonists Furious. Because the colonists were so mad at these acts, they tossed a lots of tea off of a boat in Boston (also called the Boston Tea Party) to prove their fury. This was the best reason for breaking away from Britain in my opinion because of all of its causes and

Although the reputation of being a land of the free, the American colonies were quite often filled with people who were not treated as free citizens or as equals. There was an often misunderstanding that the American colonists no longer wanted to British citizens anymore, and although that wasn’t the case, they still got treated fairly bad by the British Parliament. The American colonists still wanted to be viewed as loyal citizens, and seen as equals. Because the British Parliament treated the American colonies unfairly, the American colonists declared their independence to be freed from the British Parliament to be treated as equals.

Since 1764, Great Britain has been imposing their power on the colonies in very unfair ways. They have been acting as a tyranny who is abusing their absolute power. The colonists were justified in separating from Britain and declaring independence because of unfair taxes, and tyranny. The American Colonies are justified for separating from britain because of multiple unconstitutional taxes.

The colonists declared independence because of the Battle of Bunker Hill. According to the John Adams video, “Many British attacked Bunker Hill against the colonists and burned down their wall. The colonists

The American Revolutionary War originated by the resistance of the Americans Patriots to the unfair taxes imposed by the British parliament. The resistance movement led into boycotts of British goods and the destruction of a shipment of tea at the Boston Tea Party. The British government retaliated by shutting down the Port of Boston and taking away the limited colonial self-government. The Patriots responded by taking control of the provinces governments outside of Boston, the armed action that called the Suffolk Resolves. Twelve other American colonies supported the caused and joined with Massachusetts and formed the First Continental Congress and set up committees and conventions to coordinate resistance, which effectively seized power. On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress formally voted for independence and issued the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Thus the new Republic of United States of America was born. Meanwhile, the British were mustering forces to suppress the Patriots movement. Gaining financial and military support from France in 1778, the Second Continental Congress continued during the American Revolutionary War. The conflict gradually expanded into that the British force combating against France, Spain, and the Netherlands, effectively created the first world war in the contemporary history of the world (Gray & Kamensky, 2013). The American Revolutionary War eventually came to an end on

Between 1754 to 1774 a serious alteration of relationship occurred between the American colonists and their mother country, Great Britain. This changing relationship became painfully obvious to both parties with the opening of the American Revolution and active hostilities. The key factors that brought this changing relationship were: political, economic, and social. This three factors contributed to the change in relationship between the American colonies and Great Britain that resulted in the Revolution.

The colonies in America called a meeting for the First Continental Congress to discuss the lack of "law of nature, principles of the English constitution, and liberty” from Great Britain, and many colonies were in agreement to separate from Britain. The beginning of the revolution began when British Redcoats advanced in Boston and the first shot was fired at Lexington and Concord. During the Revolution, the colonist decided to have a Second Continental Congress to discuss the issues of militia, money to pay for the war, adopted the Declaration of Independence, and appointed George Washington as commander of the Continental army. The colonies wanted to be free from an absolute ruler who cut off trade from the world, imposed taxation without representation, deny colonies from trial by jury, abolished laws and all forms of government, and destroyed the lives of the people. Moreover, having Washington, a soldier in previous wars, served in favor for the militia and encouraged the men to continue fighting for freedom.

The thirteen colonies had always been loyal to the British Crown. Since Great Britain had always kept its distance from the colonies affairs and had allowed the thirteen colonies freedom to manage their own affairs. The thirteen colonies had hardly experience any injustice from the British, but eventually their relationship would change. The colonies would eventually seek its independence form British since they develop disputes between money and respect. The thirteen colonies were very loyal to great British before The Seven Years War. The war let British in debt and to raise revenues they decided to unfairly tax the thirteen colonies. They created the sugar and the stamp Act. The Americans started

The colonists declared “No taxation without representation” and many refused to buy the imported British goods. The Parliament ended up repealing all of the taxes because of this except one, a tax on tea. Colonists were already very angered by this time and tragedy struck in 1770 when an angry crowd began to taunt a group of British soldiers, causing them to open fire and kill five people. This event became known as the Boston Massacre. Three years later, colonists disguised themselves as Indians and destroyed hundreds of crates of tea on a ship in the Boston Harbor, this event became known as the Boston Tea Party. Colonists began to organize themselves into militias to resist the British troops and in April 1775, British soldiers and colonial militia fired on each other near Lexington and Concord causing the American Revolution to began. The Continental Congress, representatives sent to Philadelphia to make decisions as a group, established a Continental Army to defend the colonies against British troops. On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence drafted by Thomas Jefferson. After the Battle of Saratoga, the French were convinced that the Americans could defeat the British and entered into alliance with the new United States. After eight years of war, a peace treaty acknowledging the independence of the United States of America was signed in 1783. In the Spring of 1789, the United

After the situation with the Stamp Act more problems arose in Boston, between the British soldiers and the crowds. The jobs were being taken by the solders from the people due to fewer jobs. The situations escalated which lead to the Boston Massacre that angered the public against England. This outraged was directed toward the British rulers. According to Zinn due to “Patrick Henry’s oratory in Virginia pointed a way to relieve class tension between upper and lower classes and form a bond against the British” (Zinn p.68). Henry’s efforts help to convince the people to join forces so that they could produce a mass movement against the British for their independence. The Continental Congress made its decision to separate after the British failed efforts to stop the colonist at Lexington and Concord. Finally after all the outraged the Declaration of Independence was drawn up by a “small committee written by Thomas Jefferson, it was adopted by Congress on July 2, and officially proclaimed July 4, 1776” (Zinn p.71) According to Zinn the “Declaration is not, centuries late and pointless, to lay impossible moral burdens on that time. It is to try to understand the way in which the Declaration functioned to mobilize certain groups of Americans, ignoring others” (pg. 73). There were still problems