As the East Coast started to grow and flourish, there came to be rules and taxes. The towns started growing and the economy boosted. There were some conflicts with Indian-Americans and British. Boston had the Puritans there; witchcraft trials in Salem village and Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were in Rhode Island. As you can see from this list there are a lot of different opinions and ideas in the American Colonies. There

were already conflicts in the past and if there were even more friction things like war and rebellion might have broken out, which happened. British just got out of the civil war and were in desperate need of money, which they would get out of the colonies. Americas were seen as land of easy living and fertile land.

The taxes weren’t the only problem that colonists had. Native Americans were a problem too. Colonists were angry about being able to only stay on their side of the line. Meaning they could only build farms on the colonies territory. There were the French and Spanish that were always a risk. Spanish in the South, in Florida had their own colonies and wanted to grow stronger and bigger, while French were also growing in the North. Dutch were also present having some territory near the colonies. As you can see, the colonists were aggressed by almost everyone around them.

On April 19, 1775 is when the famous quote “the British are coming", was said by Paul Revere, when the British started their advance on the town of the Lexington. British soldiers met about 70 militiamen on Lexington Square. As militiamen saw the incoming British soldiers, they started to disperse, someone made a shot and a firefight started, as later it was called, “The Shot That Was Heard Around The World”. The British soldiers went thorough Lexington onto the next town, Concord. There British soldiers met a stronger fighting force which consisted of several hundreds of militiamen. After about five minutes of firefight, Major John Pitcairn, who was commanding the British soldiers, started to move back to Boston with his troops. As they were coming back they lost some men because of sharpshooters from militia that were hidden around the road. This is just one of the aggressions that British made on the colonists. Colonies had to have some kind of army, militiamen, minutemen, and congressional army, to protect the territory from attacks from Indians or any other aggressors. By colonies having their own armies and own military force is another point that shows that the colonies were getting ready for independence. In the begging, when the Mayflower Compact was signed those people on the ship might not have th

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