The Road to Independence

The Road to Independence was a period of time that the colonies began to get their lives together. They began to fight for how they wanted to live. Through the wars with themselves, the French, Indians, and the British was a rough time for the colonies.
The fist battle that started to Road to Independence was the French and Indian War. The British and the American Colonies waged it against the French and their Indian allies. In Europe the Seven Years War began because of the rivalry between the nations for control over North America started when they began exploring the continent. The
British settlers found towns and cleared their land for growing crops. On the other hand the French were more concerned with protecting their land and trade. A meeting of delegate's form seven of the colonies in Albany wanted to strengthen their ties and to create a unified war effort in the Northern Colonies. They wanted to make this a
permanent union of the colonies called the Albany Plan of Union, though the colonies rejected it, it was a model for later government. In the beginning the British where losing.
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