The American Revolution, Independance from Britain (1 Jan 1772 Jahr – 1 Jan 1783 Jahr)

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The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America. In alliance with France and others it defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War.

Starting with the Stamp Act Congress in 1765, members of American colonial society, arguing the position "No taxation without representation", rejected the authority of the British Parliament to tax them because they lacked representation in Parliament. Protests steadily escalated to the Boston Tea Party in 1773, during which patriots destroyed a consignment of taxed tea. The British responded by closing Boston Harbor, then followed with a series of legislative acts which effectively rescinded Massachusetts Bay Colony's rights of self-governance and caused the other colonies to rally behind Massachusetts. In late 1774, the Patriots set up their own alternative government to better coordinate their resistance efforts against Great Britain, while other colonists preferred to remain aligned to the British Crown and were known as Loyalists or Tories.

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