1700-1781

In 1702, the twelve-year war broke out. This then started the French and Indian War. This was a war engaged by France and Britain. It was inevitable that a war would occur in the New World. The reason for this was because they had been in conflict for generations in Europe and they had not improved their relations in North America, where their colonies laid side by side. Though this originally began in 1690 with the massacre of colonists in New York by the French and Indians. Within a seventy-year span, four colonial wars were fought, the King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, King George’s War, and the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War gave its name to the whole series of wars because it was the last and most important conflict. It proved to be the end of French power in North America. Despite their close alliances, the Indians, the French were neve

After the Stamp Act, the Townshend Act was passed in 1767. This act imposed taxes on lead, paint, paper, glass, and tea. The colonists responded to this with boycott. The colonists agreed to not import any British goods, especially the more expensive goods. In response to the protests, the Parliament ordered the British troops to restore order in the colonies in 1768. As a result, many brawls occurred between the British soldiers and the colonists. On March 5, 1770, the townspeople tried to defend their customs house and started to throw snowballs at the soldiers. Suddenly, the British troops started shooting at the colonists. It resulted with 11 colonists hit and 5 dead. This event was then called the Boston Massacre. Then the Townshend Act was repealed.

On July 2, 1776, Congress voted approval of the Declaration of Independence. Another vote on July 4 ratified the Declaration of Independence. By August, all of the fifty-five signatures were written in on this document. Though the main problem the Continental Congress had was how to finance the cost of the war. This took a lot of time and they tried different ways to support their Army. Soon, the problem of the "states’ rights" came because even though they wanted to be united as one country, each colony wanted to remain independent and make its own laws. The debate over how the colonies could remain united but keep their individual rights continued. In July 1776, the Articles of Confederation were presented to Congress as a way to define both the central government and the state governments. The Articles passed in 1777, but were not ratified by all the states until 1781.

This resulted with the meeting of the first Continental Congress on September 5, 1774. This meeting met in Philadelphia’s Carpenter’s Hall. Twelve delegates from twelve colonies discussed how they were going to return the colonies to their harmonious state. They met in secret because they did not want the British to know they were uniting the colonies. They decided not to

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