Abstract
The year 1763 marked the end of the French-Indian War for the American colonies, as well for Great Britain and France. It marked the beginning of a new sharing of the American territory, to the benefit of Great Britain. Thirteen years later, in January 1776, author and one of the founding fathers of the United States, Thomas Paine anonymously published his lampoon "Common Sense". It had a strong claim for independence that met with a response on the 4th of July, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was signed by the thirteen colonies in order to separate from the motherland. They called themselves the United States of America. For the first time in history, they were thrown into the modern colonial revolution. But one should underline that nobody could have forecast the sudden an unplanned independence in 1763. And still, only thirteen years passed, which demonstrates how time "accelerates" during revolutionary periods. However, we cannot consider those years as uniform, there were phases and several causes of unrest in those years; among them were the economics, ideology, politics, which led the Americans to claim for independence.
