Many people feel as though the United Nations fails in many ways to do it main task, which is to make world peace. There ares simply too many smaller fighting groups to make the organization truly effective.
They established the Continental Army. They made George Washington General of the Army.
The greatest legacy left by the Second Continental Congress of Philadelphia was the Declaration of Independence of the United States on July 4, 1776, which marked the beginning of a long military dispute between the revolting settlers and English loyalists.
It ended with a resounding victory for the rebels, who founded a Republic (a year before the French Revolution!) In the Americas, guided by the principles of political freedom and the supremacy of the popular will.
fear that Spain would try to regain it's colonies in Latin America, despite their declaration of independence
The Monroe Doctrine was an effort by President James Monroe in 1823 to limit other European powers particularly Spain from settling colonies or province in the Western Hemisphere. It basically declared that the United States would recognize such trials as an act of hostility because America fear that Spain would try to regain it's colonies in Latin America. At the same time, the doctrine recorded that the U.S. would appreciate and not intervene with existing European colonies nor interrupt in the internal affairs of European countries.
B. The eighteenth amendment
