The American Revolution - Fill in the Missing Words

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The American Revolution was a war that the 13 fought against Great Britain. It led to the Declaration of and the of a new nation, the United States of America.

When European came to America they were alone and had to solve their own problems. They did not get any help from their mother countries. In the middle of the 18th Great Britain went to war against France. Many were also fought in the New World. After Britain had the French they wanted money from the colonists to pay for the war.

 

The settlers, on the other hand, were not represented in London's and were angry at the Britain imposed upon them. In 1775 fighting broke out between the American colonists, who did not have an organized and British soldiers, who were sent to America to preserve peace.

 

 

The American soldiers fought under the of George Washington. At first, the Americans lost important battles because the British had better and more firepower. But the American troops proved to be better fighters and wanted to get rid of the British. The winter months were very difficult because there was little food and spread among the soldiers.

While fighting concentrated on the colonies in the first part of the war, the important battles towards the end were fought in the south. In 1781 the British after their defeat at Yorktown, Virginia.

Thousands of soldiers died in the Revolutionary War. Independence , however, changed the of the New World. A was written for the new state and George Washington became its first .