i don´t understand USA history HEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLPPP!!!!!!!!!1 PLEASE?

Question

I am just a common mexican student, I am doing a project
about the independence of some countries in the american continent. I choose to work with USA independence from England, but i'm not getting it. Did you have a war to get your independence? or you sign the declaration of independence and became independent?
who were yor military leaders? which were their ideas?Which were the causes of the independence?
I have a problem I google for the independence and I find information about the revolution. Are they synonims?
How did the independence was consummated?

thanks for helping me

Answer 1

Please please stay away from wikipedia, answers, askjeeves, and all the other search engines. they are a nice way to start your research but they really do not give you a reliable source for information. Anyone without a verified background or sources could write what is in those pages and that does not amount to historical research. Try the link below.
1) American colonies petition for representation
2) American colonists declare Independence from England
3) The revolutionary war follows.
4) Leaders George Washingtom, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin and many more
5) After several years of warfare and with the help of the French government, the Colonies win the war and subsequently become the United States of America.

Buena Suerte!

Answer 2

Revolutionaries seized control of the governments of the thirteen colonies. This sparked the war, basically. Americans set up the Second Continental Congress and a year after the war actually started, declared independence from British rule (i.e. the declaration of independence). There are several reasons America wanted to be independent. First of all, most people living in the Colonies were born in America, a lot of them fourth or fifth generation Americans, so they had no sentimental ties to England at all. Some of it had to do with British taxes. Americans didn't feel it was right to pay someone across the ocean for benefits they weren't necessarily getting. We gained our Independence when we won the war.
American Independence and the Revolutionary war are not the same thing. The Revolution lead to Independence.

Answer 3

The American Colonies did fight for independence. It wasn't an easy victory either. The first battles were fought before the Declaration of Independence. The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought in 1775, while the Declaration was signed in 1776. If you read what is at Wikipedia, it will show how it came to be. It doesn't just focus on the war itself. I also found another website that might help. Good luck!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution
http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/tline.asp

Answer 4

There was a war it was the Revolutionary War. We fought in this war to Win our Independence from England. We did wright The Declaration of Independence to govern our new country this is still use to this day. It was then ratified.
I found some sites that might help.

Answer 5

I came from Japan, so I don't know completely about what happened. From what I DO know, the Americans had The Revolutionary War. What happened was the British were taxing the American colonists. The first battle was the battle of lexington and concord. One of the more well known generals was George Washington, who later became the First President.

Answer 6

you need to get a book out of the library....
Declaration of independence led to revolutionary war (British were not too happy to be losing their colonies).

no, independence does not equal revolution, but the successful revolution established United States as an independent country.

buena suerte!

Answer 7

Try this website. It's pretty cool & I think it will help you:
http://www.americanrevolution.com/

Answer 8

why did anybody bother to invent GOOGLE? Nobody seems to use it.