World War also started after archduke Francis Ferdinand got assassinated.
They were essentially all independent countries at that point until they ratified that US constitution
They threatened the islands to stop trading with Britain to try to stop the original taxes but it only stopped the imports and exports by a 97% margin. Britain outsmarted them by stopping all shipping to the colonies, which means they failed; because it caused them to have less stocked resources at the start of the Revolutionary War.
