what event led to the break between the american colonies and great britian?
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A tea party, a masacre in boston, taxes, and the american revolution. Search for French Indian War as well, study hard killer.
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I think it is clear that the key was the fact the British and French were at war, so the French joined us.\n\nThe real turning point was the victory at Cowpens, where an American Army, using the same tactics as the British defeated a british army in the field.  So tatics weren't a big factor.\n\nThat was followed up by the surrender at Yorktown.  Where a French fleet prevented an English retreat by sea and thousands of French troops helped to secure the seige.  American troops did most of the fighting but the presence of the French troops insured the surrender.\n\nAfter all at the time the British were the worlds greatest Military power.  \n\nEven during the war of 1812 the British could not focus on their battle with the Americans with Napleon running amuck in Europe.
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The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and Great Britain and its colonies in British North America (later Canada) from 1812 to 1815 on land and sea. The war formally began on June 18, 1812, with a U.S. declaration of war.\n\nOverview\nThe war took place against the global backdrop of the long struggle between Britain, with a shifting series of European allies, and the French and European empire of Napoleon. In the first decade of the 1800s each side forbade neutral nations to trade with the other side, but only the British (with its dominant Royal Navy) could impose these restrictions upon a burgeoning American merchant marine which had begun to trade worldwide. In addition to their search for contraband, the British stopped American ships to remove sailors whom they regarded as British subjects and, always desperate for trained manpower in the long wars with France, pressed them into service in the Royal Navy. Some British captains were not careful to ensure that these seamen were in fact British rather than American citizens.\n\nThe United States and Britain came to the brink of war in 1807 when the British ship HMS Leopard stopped the American frigate USS Chesapeake just outside American territorial waters. When the American vessel refused to be inspected, the British fired into the frigate, boarded it and removed four seamen whom the British captain claimed to be deserters. Although the British apologized, they did not end their stop and search practices.\n\nThe Americans had hoped for a quick win in the war, since Britain was at war with France under Napoleon. British forces responded to the declaration by the capture of Fort Mackinac on July 17, after the US force under U.S. General William Hull had invaded Canada July 12 at Sandwich (now known as Windsor, Ontario). The British later captured Detroit after turning back an American invasion of Upper Canada in the summer of 1812. The United States defeated combined British and Native Americans armies with victories at the Battle of the Thames, in October 1813, and at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, in March 1814, but by this time, Britain had successfully concluded the Napoleonic wars and the British were finally able to divert more resources to North America.\n\nDespite several notable successes by U.S. frigates and the menace of American privateers to British trade, the Royal Navy established a strict blockade of American trade causing economic hardship. On land, the U.S. invasion of Canada was swiftly repulsed, and British forces counterattacked across the border, burning Washington, D.C., and occupying the territories that would later become the state of Maine. But the British counteroffensive was turned back at Lake Champlain, Baltimore, and New Orleans. The Treaty of Ghent (ratified in 1815) restored the status quo ante bellum --that is the exact geographical situation as before.\n\nOn the Great Lakes border, more than half of the British forces were made up of Canadian militia. Additionally, many North American Indian peoples had their own reasons for fighting alongside either the British or the Americans. In the Northwest Territory, the War was, in a sense, a continuation of Tecumseh's War after the Indian defeat at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 up to Battle of the Thames in 1813.\n\nSome histories refer to this war as the "War of 1812–14", using the date of the peace treaty as the ending date of the war.\n\n\n[edit] Origins\nMain article: Origins of the War of 1812\nThe main reasons for America declaring war on the British were:\n\nThe boarding of American ships by the Royal Navy to search for alleged deserters, and the forced impressment of American and naturalized American citizens as British seamen. \nThe trade embargoes by Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars, which resulted in the seizure of hundreds of American merchant ships. \nAmerican Expansionists noticed that the Canadian colonies were only lightly defe
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Actually it's the Revolutionary war.\n\n1. We hated the English. Mostly because the taxed us without representation.\n\n2. We signed the declaration of independence.\n\n3. We kicked their butts.\n\n4. They surrendered in Yorktown, VA.\n\n5. We kissed and made up and now we are friends.\n\nThat's about it.\n\nHint: look up revolutionary war or american revolution and you will find more stuff than you could ever use.
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On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, giving up almost 8000 men and any chance of winning the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis had marched his army into the Virginia port town earlier that summer expecting to meet British ships sent from New York. The ships never arrived.
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To seperate the U.S. from Great britain.
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Neither.  There are a number of different American dialects and a number of different British dialects.  Moreover, in some ways, (standard) American English is more "conservative" (has changed less from older forms of the language) than (standard--RP) British English.  Also, it wasn't the *British* who spread the language throughout the world; it was the *English*.  The Welsh and Scots (and Irish if you mean "British Isles" rather than "Great Britain") only started speaking English (rather than their original Celtic languages) under rule by England.
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Boston. Damn British. We taught em though.
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There are many things that occured during the Treaty of Paris which includes Great Britian recognizing and accepting the security of American independence.  For more information check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_%281783%29 and you will find everything you need.  Good Luck!!!
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First of all Americans are Brits, but are in different countries, and civil war occours in the SAME country, but I think I know what you are refering to.\n\nThe American Revolution was a revolution that ended two centuries of rule of the Thirteen Colonies by the British Empire and created the modern United States of America. The Revolutionary era was both exhilarating and disturbing–a time of progress for some, dislocation for others. The American Revolution is the series of ideas, and changes that resulted in the revolution and ensuing political separation of thirteen colonies in North America from the British Empire and the creation of the United States of America with a new political system. The American War of Independence which lasted from 1775 to 1783, was one part of the revolution, but the revolution by the Americans began before the first shot was fired at Lexington and Concord and continued after the British surrender at Yorktown. Years later, in 1818, John Adams wrote: "The Revolution was effected before the War commenced," and "The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."\n\nHistorians usually agree that the revolutionary era began in 1763 as Britain defeated France in the French and Indian War, and the military threat to the colonies from France ended. The end of the period is usually marked by as Treaty of Paris in 1783. However, references to the "revolutionary era" sometimes stretched to 1789, when a new government under George Washington began operating.\n\nInterpretations about the effect of the revolution vary. At one end of the spectrum is the older view that the American Revolution was not "revolutionary" at all, that it did not radically transform colonial society, but simply replaced a distant government with a local one. The more recent view pioneered by historians such as Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Wood and Edmund Morgan is that the American Revolution was a unique and radical event, based on a new ideology of "republicanism" which produced deep changes that had a profound impact on world history.
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You have got to be kidding me...\n\nThe Stamp Act was an attempt by England to tax the American colonies and began the movement to break America from English rule.  The Boston Tea Party was a direct result of the Stamp Act, where American colonists through taxed cargo into the Boston Harbor before it could be unloaded from the ships.  The Stamp Act also resulted in the American motto of 'No taxation without representation', meaning that the Colonis felt they should have a voice in how they were being governed.
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America was not invented.The English people from England fought the French and Spanish for this land.Due to the fact that the England still taxed them even though they weren't in England anymore, the new settlers started the American Revolution.It began in 1775 and ended in 1783.
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The steps leading up to the war and their consequences are as follows:\n1. Proclomation of 1763 which prohibited the colonist from living west of the Appalachian Mts.-made the colonist mad and many disregarded the proclomation.\n2. Britain raising taxes on the colonist to help defray the costs of the French and Indian War-the colonist protested and refused to pay the taxes.\n3. Boston Massacre in 1770 which was used as American propoganda against the British when in fact it was a large crowd threatening a small group of British soldiers who either fired accidently or out of fear for their lives\n4. Quartering of British soldiers in colonists homes-caused great resentment against the British.\n5. Boston Tea Party in which colonist threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest the monopoly given the British East India Trading Company causing the British to pass the Coercive Acts which severly punished Boston.\n6.  To show support for the Mass. colony all of the colonies except one met at the first Continental Congress and authorized colonies to raise militias, and to boycott British tea.\n7. Lexington and Concord April 1775-British troops attempted to capture Sam Adams and a store of arms and powder at Concord, Mass.  The British were met at Lexington, Mass. on April 19th by a small group of "minute men", resulting in the death of several colonist.\n8. Second Continental Congress-creates an army and names George Washington as commander.\n9. Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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We have had two wars with Britian, the American Revolution and the War of 1812.  The American Revolution had many causes including taxes without corresponding representation in the British Parliament. Also resentment of the Quartering of British soldiers in colonist homes, the Boston Massacre, and the British punishment of Boston for the Boston Tea party. The War of 1812 was fought because the British were kidnapping American sailors off of American ships, and the British provoking Indians to attack Americans.
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The war was a result of two major causes: a dispute over repeated violations of American sovereignty by Great Britain, and American expansionism, a desire by some Americans to expand their territory and population by conquering Great Britain's colonies.\n\nThe British colonies were lightly populated and poorly defended compared to the crowded American states to their south, and many of the settlers were Americans by birth and believed to remain sympathetic to the United States. Some Americans argued that the majority of the population in the British colonies would rise up and greet an American invading army as liberators, and that, as Thomas Jefferson suggested in 1812, "the acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us the experience for the attack on Halifax, the next and final expulsion of England from the American continent." The belief that the United States was destined to control all of the North American continent would later gain the name Manifest Destiny, but that term was not yet in use at the time of the war. However, the British did have certain advantages, such as having twice as many people and better infrastructure on the north bank of the upper St Lawrence River than the Americans had along the southern bank. Indeed for those living in upstate New York, it was easier for people and goods to travel to Kingston and Montreal, rather than New York City and other points south.\n\nMeanwhile, the United States had grievances against Great Britain for sovereignty violations in three areas:\n\nBritain's refusal to surrender western forts promised to the United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American War of Independence, together with allegations that Britain was arming North American Indians fighting against them on the western frontier; \nThe stopping of American ships by the Royal Navy on the high seas to search for deserters, and the impressment of seamen who had been born as British subjects but later naturalized as American citizens; and \nThe trade embargos by France and Britain during the Napoleonic Wars, which resulted in the seizing of hundreds of American merchant ships. \nIn 1795, the Jay Treaty with Britain and the Treaty of Greenville with the North American Indians temporarily resolved the conflict on the Northwestern frontier; however, the Monroe-Pinkney Treaty of 1806 dealt only with trade, not impressment, and was not ratified by the United States Congress. Continuing embargoes and the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair of 1807 (which resulted in the deaths of three American seamen under attack by a British ship) further aggravated tensions between the two countries.\n\nIn 1811, in the United States House of Representatives, a loose political faction called the War Hawks, under the leadership of speaker Henry Clay, began agitating for a declaration of war against Britain, both as a response to real grievances and as an opportunity to acquire the British colonies. After a speech by President James Madison to Congress, on June 18, 1812, Congress voted to declare war. By that time, Great Britain had already revoked the restrictions on American commerce, but the news of this arrived only after war was declared.\n\nSome historians, such as Robin Reilly, have argued that the declaration of war on Great Britain by the United States was a victory for French diplomacy, forcing Britain to divert its attention and some resources from continental matters.
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Key Event: America Signs Treaty with Tripoli.\n\nSome more Key Events in President George Washington's Administration\n\n• Precedents---Washington established two main precedents: a cabinet and the two-year term.\n• Whiskey Rebellion, 1794---Washington ordered 15,000 troops to Pennsylvania and crushed the first challenge to federal authority.\n• Farewell Address, 1796---Washington warned against the evils of political parties and "tangling alliances" abroad. \n\n\nOn April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles." \n\nBorn in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman. \n\nHe pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion. At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. The next year, as an aide to Gen. Edward Braddock, he escaped injury although four bullets ripped his coat and two horses were shot from under him. \n\n   \n From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, he devoted himself to a busy and happy life. But like his fellow planters, Washington felt himself exploited by British merchants and hampered by British regulations. As the quarrel with the mother country grew acute, he moderately but firmly voiced his resistance to the restrictions. \n\nWhen the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years. \n\nHe realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British. He reported to Congress, "we should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn." Ensuing battles saw him fall back slowly, then strike unexpectedly. Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. \n\nWashington longed to retire to his fields at Mount Vernon. But he soon realized that the Nation under its Articles of Confederation was not functioning well, so he became a prime mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. When the new Constitution was ratified, the Electoral College unanimously elected Washington President \n\nHe did not infringe upon the policy making powers that he felt the Constitution gave Congress. But the determination of foreign policy became preponderantly a Presidential concern. When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British. Rather, he insisted upon a neutral course until the United States could grow stronger. \n\nTo his disappointment, two parties were developing by the end of his first term. Wearied of politics, feeling old, he retired at the end of his second. In his Farewell Address, he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances. \n\nWashington enjoyed less than three years of retir
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The Revolutionary War started in 1765 and ended in 1777.