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英国将军伯戈因 (Burgoyne) 在撒拉拖加 (Saratoga) 向美军投降。
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英国花了很多金钱在保护其殖民地不受到法国与其他国家的攻击。因此，英国在国内征收非常高的赋税。他们也因此决定把一些财政负担转移给殖民地的人民。1765年通过的印花税法案，要求对所有法律文档、报纸与其他文档加贴印花税票，引起殖民地人民很大的不满。虽然这项税收在1776年被否决了，但是这只是英国政府与殖民地之间诸多问题的开端而已。举例来说，1773年发生的波士顿茶会 (Boston
Tea Party) 抗争事件就是当地人民反对英国及其在殖民地征收茶税而有的行动。
这些紧张冲突最后终于催生了1776年的独立宣言。更早一年，独立战争，也就是美国革命爆发。当英国在1781年10月19日投降时，美国人才真正脱离英国独立，并且创建属于自己的政府。
Defending the Colonies against attack by the French and others had cost the British a great deal of money. As a result, the British had very high taxes in their country. They thus decided to shift some of their financial burden to the colonists. The Stamp Act of 1765, which taxed all legal documents, newspapers and other documents, was met with a great uproar in the Colonies. In 1766, this tax was repealed, but it was just the beginning of the problems between the colonists and the British. The Boston Tea Party in 1773 was an act of revolt against the British and their tax on tea in the Colonies.
Tensions such as these eventually led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. A year earlier, the War of Independence, also known as the American Revolution, began. When the British finally surrendered on October 19, 1781, Americans were officially independent of Britain and set about establishing their own government.
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