Essay On When America'sneezes When The World Catches Cold

‘When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches cold,’ is a famous saying spoken in the economic world today. Though a younger nation of 400 years of brief history, the United States of America is now dominating in all spears of human activities. The multiple cross-sections of people from all parts of the world have contributed to the immense development of the nation. This vast nation was once mere scattering of British Colonial regime, flowered into a unified federal state after a brief civil war. In a way, the American civil war was a blessing in disguise for it brought about the unity among different denominations, and the common national spirit. The American archaeological study suggests that the earlier inhabitants of this land might

Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their right as Englishmen, to ‘No taxation without representation.’ In December 16, 1773, after the officials of Boston refused to return three shiploads of tea, which were taxed before sending to Britain, a group of raged colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing them into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history as Boston Tea Party. The result was that the British ended local self-government in Massachusetts and closed Boston's commerce. The dissatisfactory American colonists formed a unifying ‘Continental Congress (of America)’ in 1774 that ran a shadow government in every colony, thought at first to be loyal to the king. The first Continental Congress drew up a declaration that it should not import of British Goods to American colonies. On 15 June 1775 George Washington was appointed as a commander of the new Continental army. The War of Independence: In April 1775, Gen Thomas Gage initiated action against the Massachusetts troublemakers involved in the Boston Tea Party. He learnt that weapons and amenities were being gathered in