ASPECTS OF BRITISH HISTORY
American Indian attacks. It insisted that the colonists should pay part of the cost of
protection and imposed taxes and import duties to raise the required money. The
colonists rebelled.
The War of Independence, also called the American Revolution, began in 1775.
The 13 colonies issued a joint Declaration of Independence the next year. Britain lost
the war and, in 1783, it recognized the independence of the colonies, which became
the United States of America8.
C. The Second Empire (19th – mid-20th cc.)
D. The Empire Survives
The history of the United Kingdom is the story of how a small island country
became the world’s most powerful nation – and then declined. In the eighteenth
century the British began the Industrial Revolution and made the United Kingdom the
world’s richest manufacturing country, the world’s workshop. The British ruled the
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