A HUGE Turning Point In American History

A HUGE turning point in american history creating the united states of america began when the american revolution had taken place. The american revolution all began when England and France had a huge disagreement resulting in a war between them. Colonists quickly became angry at the fact Great Britain had power over them creating a huge amount of new rules and restrictions resulting in the colonists rebelling and creating violent protests. The colonists were declaring independence from Great britain because they were tired of getting bossed around and told what to do by the british. Declaring independence meant they could start fresh and create their own government and rulers. due to the fact King George wasn't doing a good job in listening
to the colonists problems and was also were creating problems himself. The american revolution began when frances expansion into the ohio river valley created repeated conflict with the claims of the british colonies.
A great series of battles between them finally led to the british’s declaration of war “ http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war “ . This war was well known as the french and indian war, also called the seven years war between england and france. The french won success in the french and indian war as they gained the indians trust as an ally of theirs during the french and indian war. The british had to borrow money to help finance and support them in the war which put them in great debt after they had won and finally put an end to the french and indian war. The french and indian war strengthen the american colonies by removing their european rivals into the north and south “ http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war “ , since britain won the french and indian war they gained the french territores for example they recieved canada and florida. Since they were taking so much of france’s land they allowed the french to keep the west indian sugar islands. Due to the war creating much debt for the english in Great Britain they decided to tax the colonists for almost everything causing the colonists to grow very angry and violently rebel and protest to get the different tax laws repealed. The stamp act , tea act , and the townshend act were all created simply to help britain pay off war debts the french and indian war had
created. This stamp act was a tax law that required all colonists to buy stamps to prove payment of tax . This act led to the colonists harassing stamp distributions, boycotting british goods as patriots and creating a group called the sons and daughters of liberty. The sons and daughters of liberty was a group created to protest the british restrictions whom became the leaders of colonial resistance the boycotts and protests soon had the british repeal the stamp act and create the townshend act. The townshend act was an act where the british taxed certain colonial imports and station troops to protect customs officers. This act urged the colonists to protest “ Taxation without representation” and organize a brand new boycott of the imported goods. Soon indirect tax on paper , lead and glass led to the creation of the committee of correspondence to allow the colonists to communicate with each other. The tea act was an act that gave the indian company special concessions in the colonial tea business and shut out the colonial tea merchants. The tea act led to colonists boycotting and dumping 18,000 pounds of the east indian tea into the boston harbor. Battle of lexington and concord was a spin off of the boston tea party which angered the british where General gage ordered the british military to seize the colonial weapons, the minutemen engaged in a battle first and lexington and then again at concord. Lexington and concord was one of the major battles in the american revolution that led to colonial independence. Battles of bunker hill , saratoga and yorktown are a few others that led to the huge turning point in america where colonies gained independence from Great Britain.