During the second half of the 18th century, the colonies of America wanted an independent country. There were many reasons for them to have their own country. One of the most important reasons was that many Americans believed that the Britain wanted to dominate Americans and enslave them in order to bring more wealth to the kingdom. In 1776, Britain declared war to rebelling colonies. They thought it would be easy to win the war because America was nothing but a bunch of colonies which had no army or any kind of experience in bat