American+Revolution

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1776 - 1783

**The background**
====150 years after the dounding of Jamestownin1607, the 13 colonies had managed totheir own affairs. Like England was far away the people in the colonies started to see themselves that they where different. The differences between the English and the Americans made the people from the colonies to consider seeking independence in 1763. After a war, England decided to make the people from the colonies pay for the damage. They also decided that the colonist should pay to mantain the army so there where no invations of the Indians. And after the French and Indian war a new law came out. It was that the colonists couldnt settle west from the Appalachian mountains. This made the people from the colonies very mad.​====

Causes of the American Revolution

 * Englands neglect of the colonies
 * Taxation without Representation
 * Limitation of individual rights
 * Taxtion
 * Mercantilism
 * Trade restrictions
 * Economic Power
 * Free enterprise

**The Boston Massacre**
====The first fightbetween the British troops and the colonists happened in Boston, March 5, 1770. The colonists started throwing snowballs, sticks and calling names to a guard. The shooting started and 11 colonists where on the floor, three of them where dead. A black man called Crispus Attucks was the first to die. Paul Revere made a drawing of what happend, it was not true but the colonists said it happend like that. There was a trail for the soilders involved. Captain Preston and six other soilders where found gulty and for punishment their thumbs were branded with hot iron.====

**Committees of Correspondance**
====After the Boston Massacre there where no fights between the colonies and the English. To keep things more fair with the British the colonies created something called the Committees of correspondance. The first meeting was organized by Samuel Adams in Boston, 1772. The menber wrote down the the list of rights that the colonists had and then showed the list to all the colonists. People like Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and John Hancook where in the committee, but Samuel Adams was the one who did the most par and thta is why he was also called "Mr. Revolution".====



**The prelude to the American Revolution**
====New imigrants come to the colonies. The colonial population increases.The British win the French and Indian war. England passes a series of taxesin order to pay for the debt from the war. The British parliment passes the stamp act, townshend acts, tea acts, and quartering acts. The colonists became angry and begin to protest. The most famous example is the Boston tea party.====

Boston Massacre (1770)


 * British troops fire on colonists
 * The mob was protesting the presence of soilders
 * Five colonists died
 * An African-American man named Crispus Attucks was one of the men shoot to death.

Boston Tea Party (1773)
 * (Who) Disguised as Mohawk Indians
 * (What)342 cartons of tea where dumped
 * (Why)Protest to tea act

Declaration of Independence (1775) ====  ** The Declaration of Independence ** The colonists had sent King George a list of complains and he didnt even look at it. The delegats decided that if they got their independence they would get more rights. Then Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert Sherman and Roger Livingstone wrote the declaration of independece. It had a preamble or introduction that explained why the document was created. Then there is the secon part wich tells the ways that King George had violated their rights and the last part declares their independence. Fifty-six people signed the document and John Hancook was the first to sign. He wrote his name so big that anyone could read it without glasses. **Video** ====
 * Writen by Thomas Jefferson
 * Declared the Free from colonies from England ("All men are created equal...with cetain unbienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the persuit of happines")