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Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan for uniting the colonies as a response to the French attacks on the frontier. The colonies rejected the plan because it gave too much power to an assembly mad up of representatives.
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He had different ideas about how the colonies should be governed.
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The war started out as a struggle between the French and British over lands in western Pennsylvania and Ohio. By 1756, several other European countries became involved. Great Britain won the war.
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To help pay for the war, the king and his ministers levied taxes. The Stamp Act imposed the first direct tax on colonists. It required them to pay a tax on legal documents, pamphlets, newspapres, and even dice playing cards.
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This was the first meeting organized by the colonies to protest King George's actions.
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A group of colonists dressed as mowhawk indians and dumped 342 chests of British tes into Boston Harbor.
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organizations called the committee of correspondance were urging resistance to the British
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Delegates from all the colonies except Georgia met in Philidelphia. They debated on what to do about the relationship with Great Britain.
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Prompted Virginia and Massachusetts to call a general meeting of the colonies.
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British Redcoats clashed with colonial minutemen at Lexington and Concord Massachusetts. This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
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Within three weeks delegates met in Philidelphia again for a second meeting. They assumed the the powers of a central government immediately.
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More than a year of fighting Richard Henry Lee of VIrginia did declare independence.
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The Congress approved the final draft of Lee's resolution. John Hancock and 56 other delegates signed the document.
