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A presentation by Steven Förster and Christian Baufeld
Causes:
- many wars in Europe
-> England has high depts
- colonists had no political right of participation
-> dont want to pay taxes
- 50 Boston inhabitants
-> put the tea packets in the harbor basin
- Indian covering: protest
- Great Britain
- German troops
- Indian allies
- 13 colonies
- France
- Spain
- Netherlands
- Indian allies
- born 2/22/1732 in Virginia
- died 12/14/1799
- supreme commander of the 13 colonies
- king of Britain and Ireland during the American war of independence
- unpopular in America
- held on to war
- first conflict
- unknown, who fired first
- British troops fell back to Boston
- George Washington wanted to defend New York
- no chance against too much British soldiers
- 7/4/1776
- breaking to Britain
- 56 delegates signed
- original is kept in Washington
Thomas Jefferson
co-authors:
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Robert T. Livingston
Roger Sherman
3 parts:
- Preambel (Introduction)
- Indictment of the British king
- Final declaration
important points:
- Right of life
- Right of freedom
- British troops want to seperate the American colonies (Saratoga-Campaigne)
-> tactic didnt work
- Battle of Saratoga was the turning point
big support
- American-French Alliance
- also Dutch support
-> war of independence become an international conflict
- British troops got chased by Washington
- able to escape
- 15.200 soldiers under Washington against 8.000 British soldiers
- siege of Yorktown
- 17 October: British commander gave up
- ended the war of independence
- Great Britain officially recognized the 13 colonies as the United States of America