american colonies envied wealth and power from Spain.Spain had wealth other countries' colonies didnt

England and its other colonies A+

England and its other colonies A+

The governments of the thirteen colonies were very independent of each other before the American Revolution. There was not a great deal of unity between the colonies. During the American Revolution, the colonies had to work together in order to defeat the British. The statement is 'They were very independent of each other.'

Britain had plenty of other colonies all over the world, and this fact was not used as evidence for why the colonies should be free. The Declaration of Independence focused only on the American colonies.