Where were the British living comfortably
The original non-native Americans were IMMIGRANTS. Many of the people living in America during the American Revolution were immigrants. The British Colony of America was often used by Britain (and other European Countries followed the same practice) of unloading their criminals, by banishing them to the "Americas." Like Australia, America was loosely used by European Nations as a "Penal Colony."
Living quarters for British Troops in Segowlee, India.
Because anyone could watch it almost live, and in living color, from their living rooms.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 by Japan, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in February of 1942 that led to the internment of Japanese American living on the West Coast. Japanese Americans in this part of the country were removed from their homes and sent to internment camps for the duration of World War 2.
After years of living outside direct British control, the colonies developed an "American" spirit of independence. As the colonial societies grew and began to overlap it increased unity. Whenever the British started exerting their rule again in the colonies, Americans were united in anger.
Native American attacks
The first people living in the Virginia colonies were Native Americans. They were then joined by settlers from England.
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In the 1760's, half of the two million people living in British Colonies lived on the Atlantic Coast. They lived east of the Appalachians.
"It made people living in the colonies adapt to British rule, (even fashions)..." -JAAY
British! Her accent is merging into american, due to living out there and role requirements, but she is definitely British :)
The New England colonies relied on fishing to make a living. They also relied on the help from the Native Americans in the area.
Taxation created tension because the Americans thought it was unfair to pay taxes to the parliaments when the Americans had no representation in the parliament.
The terms "Americans" or "American colonists" were used by the British way back when the USA was only a colony of Britain. After the USA was formed, people living in this new country continued to be referred to as Americans. So American people did not choose to call themselves that. If anyone presumed that people in the territory of what is now the USA were the only "Americans," then it was the British. The term is not exclusively used by US citizens either. Many other countries refer to US Citizens as "Americans" also.
Among combattants--soldiers who actually took part in the fighting--there were: - British regular army (commonly referred to as "Redcoats"); - Loyalist militias composed of people living in the American colonies but wishing to remain British subjects; - Hessian (German) mercenaries hired to fight on behalf of the British. Among civilians, there were some who supported the King and some who supported the revolution.