THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

BETWEEN 1650 AND 1770 THE ECONOMY OF BRITISH

NORTH AMERICA (TODAY THE UNITED STATES) GREW 25 TIMES

BECAUSE OF THIS THE COLONISTS MAY HAVE HAD THE

HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING IN THE WESTERN WORLD

THIS COLONIAL WEALTH EVENTUALLY LED TO THE TAX

RELATED TENSIONS WITH BRITAIN AND THEREAFTER TO

THE REVOLUTION

THERE WERE ACTUALLY TWO BOSTON TEA PARTIES

WITH THE ONE YOU KNOW ABOUT BEING ON DECEMBER

16, 1773. THE BOSTONIANS REPEATED IT, HOWEVER,

SEVERAL MONTHS LATER ON MARCH 7, 1774

THE TWO EVENTS TOGETHER COST THE BRITISH

$3 MILLION (TODAY'S EQUIVALENT)

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ACTUALLY WROTE THE FIRST

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. EVENTUALLY,

HOWEVER, THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS CHOSEN TO

WRITE THE FINAL DRAFT

JOHN ADAMS SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED THE BRITISH

SOLDIERS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BOSTON MASSACRE

BECAUSE HE BELIEVED IN THE "RIGHT TO COUNSEL"

AND "PROTECTION OF INNOCENCE"

THE FIRST SUBMARINE ATTACK IN HISTORY TOOK PLACE

IN NEW YORK HARBOUR IN 1776. THE COLONISTS

ATTEMPTED TO ATTACH GUNPOWDER TO THE HULL OF

THE BRITISH SHIP HMS EAGLE USING A SUBMERSIBLE

THEY CALLED THE TURTLE.

AT FIRST GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS HESITANT ABOUT

ENLISTING BLACK MEN INTO THE CONTINENTAL ARMY BUT

WHEN HE HEARD THEY FOUGHT WELL AT BUNKER HILL

HE CHANGED HIS MIND.