The Declaration of Independence was published on July 4, 1776, seventeen months after the outbreak of actual warfare in April, 1775.
How did people's experiences affect their decision to take sides in the American revolution?
Taxation
American colonists grew used to making their own decisions because they were pretty much left alone. Until the British monarch needed money, he did not tax the colonists or send people to govern them.
write the declaration of independence and separate from great Britain.
Colonists used the phrase "no taxation without representation" to protest against British taxes imposed on them without their consent or involvement in the decision-making process. They believed it was unjust to be taxed by a government in which they had no elected representatives, violating their rights as Englishmen. This rallying cry became a key element of their resistance to British rule, ultimately contributing to the American Revolution.
british leaders feared that more fighting would take place on the frontier if colonists kept moving onto american-indian lands.
They wanted to be treated right.
The main decision maker was the Continental Congress-- by the way, George Washington wasn't the only general, there were many others.
The American colonists' experiences under British rule were a decisive influence upon the American Founders' decision to add the Bill of Rights to the newly ratified Constitution in 1791. The Second Amendment, for example, was derived from the American experience in the Revolutionary War, where the 'right to bear arms' had nearly been taken from them by the British and in fact proved to be one key factor in the initial successes of the 'Patriot cause' when hostilities formally broke out.
Firstly, the American colonists got their freedom and the right to establish a new country. Secondly the colonists were allowed to fish off the coast of Newfoundland. Thirdly, the beginning of a friendship between America and France. Finally was the decision to compromise on the property of the Loyalists.
Brown vs. Board of Education set national standard for integrating schools. It reversed centuries of segregationist practice. For that reason, the Brown decision is seen as a transforming event-the birth of a political and social revolution.