The British colonies formed a new country because they were being treated differently by the British people from the mainland.
The Stamp Act of 1765 was argued to be a tax without representation since the British colonies had no representatives in the British Parliament.
== == Because the colonies were British colonies, belonging to the British king and populated by British people. The so called War of American Independence was a civil war between British people in the colonies and their king.
Nations that had been colonies of Britain withdrew from the British Commonwealth to form independent republics. This included the United States, as well as several countries in Africa.
Our states or territories, at the time still called colonies by the British, wanted their independence from Britain and therefore didn't want Henry or anyone else to be a king; the states wanted an elected official (president) as head of this country and no king or emperor had any place in a democratic form of government, or the republic which we were to become.
Paine believed all of the colonies needed to unite into one army in order to defeat the British. The colonies were all very separate and did not often work together. Paine believed they needed to set aside their differences and form one large militia.
In the 1860s the British colonies were facing many different kinds of problems. One solution for all of these was for the colonies to come together to form one country. These are the problems that led to confederation:
What are now the states of Australia existed as separate British Colonies until they federated to form the nation of Australia on 1 Jan 1901.
Belize, formerly known as British Honduras, gained independence from the United Kingdom and joined together with other former British colonies in the Caribbean to form the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in 1981.
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was argued to be a tax without representation since the British colonies had no representatives in the British Parliament.
The Continental Association was responsible for enforcing a boycott of British goods in the American colonies as a form of protest against British taxation policies. It aimed to unite the colonies in their opposition to British rule and strengthen their resolve for independence.
Thomas Jefferson suggested colonies form committees of correspondence to keep each other informed about British actions. A total of about 7,000 to 8,000 Patriots served on these committees at the colonial and local levels.
== == Because the colonies were British colonies, belonging to the British king and populated by British people. The so called War of American Independence was a civil war between British people in the colonies and their king.
Nations that had been colonies of Britain withdrew from the British Commonwealth to form independent republics. This included the United States, as well as several countries in Africa.
The southern colonies had a form of self-government where everything was voted on. There were a lot of democrats in the back country. The English kingalways had the final say.