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 colonists fought the British because they wanted to be free from Britain. They fought the British because of unfair taxes. They fought because they didn’t have self-government. When the American colonies formed, they were part of Britain.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1606 King James I of England granted a charter to the Virginia Company of London to colonize the American coast anywhere between parallels 34° and 41° north and another charter to the Plymouth Company to settle between 38° and 45° north. In 1607 the Virginia Company crossed the ocean and established Jamestown.

Detailed explanation-5: -They include Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Monserrat, Pitcairn Islands, St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands.