USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1776, the leaders met in Philadelphia again. They agreed that the colonies should be free and independent states. They asked Thomas Jefferson to write a document for them that expressed these ideas. He wrote the Declaration of Independence which announced that the colonies were independent from Great Britain.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Revolutionary War was an insurrection by American Patriots in the 13 colonies to British rule, resulting in American independence.

Detailed explanation-4: -Britain began to prepare for war in early 1775. The first fighting broke out in April in Massachusetts. In August, the King declared the colonists “in a state of open and avowed rebellion.” For the first time, many colonists began to seriously consider cutting ties with Britain.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Continental Congress declared British King George III a tyrant who trampled the colonists’ rights as Englishmen, and they pronounced the colonies free and independent states on July 4, 1776.