The Road To Independence

The ideas of liberalism and democracy are the basic of the U.S. political system. As the colonist built their new society, the believed more strongly in these ideas. Britain´s 13 colonies grew in po`pulation and economic strength during the 1700s.
Afer Britain won a costly war with France in the 1750s, the colonist were asked to help pay for the war, and for Britain´s large empire. These policies restricted the colonists´way of life. For example,The Currency Act of 1764 made it illegal to print paper money in the colonies.
 The Stamp Act united the colonists in an organized resistance. The main problem was that they weren’t allowed to participate in the government that taxed them.
Samuel Adams,  he wrote newspaper articles and made speeches. The groups he helped to organize became a big part of the revolutionary movement.

By 1773, colonial traders, who were angry with British regulation of the tea trade, were interested in Sam Adams’s ideas.  The British Parliament punished Massachusetts by closing Boston’s port and by restricting local authority. Colonists called these new laws the Intolerable Acts and united to oppose them.
Colonists were angry with the British for taking away their rights, but not everyone agreed on the solution.