Becoming the United States

After the French and Indian war, England was unhappy with the Colonies, and the people of the colonies were unhappy with the added taxes, Acts and soliders in their homes from England. The colonists began securing their independence from Great Britain with the Battle of Lexington and Concird. Calling themselves the United States of America, these people wrote a Declaration of Independence, defied the authority of their mother country, and ended up winning a war to protect that independence. The Revolution certainly ended with the victory in the Revolutionary War; however, the Revolution began long before that, maybe even with the settlement in America (far away from England) of people who wanted to govern themselves and who wanted to have a direct say in the way they were governed.