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Con la expansión del Este con EE UU y el intento de expandirse al sur con las colonias francesas, el gobernador de Virginia envió a George Washington a detener la expansión francesas en el valle de Ohio -
Las alianzas bien establecidas entre Gran Bretaña y el Imperio austrohúngaro y entre Francia y Prusia se derrumbaron, reemplazadas por un nuevo conjunto de alianzas que enfrentaron a Gran Bretaña y Prusia contra Francia. -
Con la coronación de George III, se comienza a generar inestabilidad en el gobierno Británico, además que intenta restaurar su autoridad en America -
Con la paz de París, los franceses cedieron a Gran Bretaña algunas de sus islas de las Indias Occidentales, la mayor parte de sus colonias en la India y Canadá, y todo el resto del territorio francés en América del Norte al este de la península. -
La manufactura colonial fue restringida
para que no pudiera competir con las industrias en rápida expansión en Gran Bretaña.
La Ley del Azúcar de 1764 aumentó el impuesto del azúcar -
Se establecieron impuestos sobre todos los documentos impresos en las colonias: periódicos, almanaques, folletos, escrituras, testamentos, licencias. -
Patrick Henry, realiza una declaración en la que sostiene que tanto ingleses como americanos tienen derecho a pagar por los impuestos que ellos elijan bajo la representación de la Asamblea de Virgina, conocido como "Virgina Resolves" -
were a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to enable administration of the British colonies in America. They are named after the Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposed the programme. -
The British soldiers, tried before a jury of Bostonians, were found guilty only of
manslaughter and given token punishment. But colonial pamphlets and newspapers convinced many Americans that the soldiers were guilty of official murder -
Samuel Adams propone el comite de correspondencia para publicar los agravios ocasionados por Inglaterra -
La corona Británica concede privilegios y el monopolio a la Compañia de las Indias orientales para la exportación de té en América.
En la tarde del 16 de diciembre de 1773, tres compañías de cincuenta hombres cada una, haciéndose pasar por indios mohawk, subieron a bordo de tres barcos, abrieron los cofres de té y los arrojaron al puerto. -
Virginia established the first intercolonial committees of correspondence, which helped
make possible continuous cooperation among the colonies. In Philadelphia they established five major decisions -
Three weeks after the Battles of Lexington
and Concord, when the Second Continental
Congress met in Philadelphia, delegates
from every colony (except Georgia, which
had not yet sent a representative) agreed to
support the war. -
Washington, an early advocate of independence with considerable
military experience, was admired, respected, and trusted by nearly all Patriots. He took command of the new army in June 1775. -
On the night of April 18,
1775, General Thomas Cage, sent a detachment of about 1,000 men out toward Lexington, hoping to surprise
the colonials and seize the illegal supplies without bloodshed. -
The British settled down for the winter in northern and central New Jersey, with an
outpost of Hessians at Trenton, on the Delaware River. But Washington did not sit still.
On Christmas night 1776, he daringly recrossed the icy Delaware River, surprised and
scattered the Hessians, and occupied Trenton -
Paine wrote, for Americans to break completely with a
political system that could inflict such brutality on its own people. -
El 4 de julio, el congreso aprueba la declaración de independencia, en dónde establece la libertad e independencia de cada uno de los Estados, absolviendose de la corona inglesa. -
November 1777, finally, Congress adopted a plan for union, the
Articles of Confederation. The document confirmed the existing weak, decentralized system.
Thomas Jefferson, wrote most of the Declaration, with
help from Benjamin Franklin and John Adams -
In the other battle—at Bennington, Vermont, on August 16—New England militiamen mauled a detachment that Burgoyne had sent to seek supplies. Short of materials,
with all help cut off, Burgoyne fought several costly engagements and then withdrew to
Saratoga, where General Horatio Gates surrounded him. -
Vergennes feared the Americans might accept the French diplomatic recognition
offer and thus destroy France’s opportunity to weaken Britain.
Encouraged by Franklin, he agreed on February 6, 1778, to give formal recognition to the
United States and to provide it with greatly expanded military assistance. -
the Marquis de Lafayette in Virginia, while Admiral de Grasse took a French fleet with
additional troops up Chesapeake Bay to the York River. These joint operations caught
Cornwallis between land and sea. After a few shows of resistance, he surrendered on
October 17, 1781 -
Con la depresión de la posguerra, se establecieron altos impuestos a granjeros, siendo que Daniel Shay consideró injusto el alto cobro y realizó una rebelión en contra de este suceso. -
Ordinance abandoned the ten
districts established in 1784 and created a single Northwest Territory out of the lands north
of the Ohio; the territory could be divided subsequently into three to five territories.