Thirteen Colonies Essay Examples

May 14, 1607 - September 3, 1783

Thirteen British Colonies, American Colonies, Thirteen American Colonies

American Revolution, French and Indian War, Boston Massacre, Battles of Saratoga, Siege of Yorktown

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George III, William Pitt the Elder, Edmund Burke

On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, “unanimously” by the votes of 12 colonies (with New York abstaining) resolved that “These United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, Free and Independent states.” Two days later, on July 4, the congress approved the Declaration of Independence, which formally cut the colonies’ ties with Great Britain and established the United States of America.