United Kingdom And United States Relations

NameProfessorCourseDateUnited Kingdom and United States RelationsBrief History USAThe date of the beginning of the history of the United States is the subject of heated debates among historians. Old textbooks begin, mainly on the arrival of Christopher Columbus on October 12, 1492, and emphasize the European background of America's colonization. In recent decades, some schools and universities, as a rule, have moved away from the traditional description, including in the historiography of the colonial period the past of Native Americans.Indigenous people lived in the territory of the modern United States for several thousand years before the first European colonists stepped into the open continent.By the 1770s, thirteen British colonies from New Hampshire in the north to Georgia in the south had more than two and a half million people living along the Atlantic coast east of the Appalachians (“History of the United States”). After the end of the Franco-Indian Wars of the 1760s, the metropolis imposed on immigrants many new taxes, rejecting the colonists' arguments that they should approve any new charges.In 1774, 13 British colonies began military actions in the struggle for independence and reached their goal on July 4, 1776 – the date of the formation of the