The American Colonial Crisis was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy, enforced their refusal to fall under the authority of Great Britain, and founded the short-lived, independent United States of America. Although unsuccessful, the Crisis led to the granting of limited self-rule to the colonists under the Columbia Compromise of 1781, forming the North American Union.