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The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain large territorial gains in North America, but disagreements over paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and later to the American Revolution. -
The american Revolution arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain's 13 North American colonies and the colonial government. The American colonists, led by General George Washington, won political independence and eventually formed the United States of America. -
The American Revolution, Also called the U.S. war of independence, fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America.
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The Stamp Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America. It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards. -
The soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various objects. The people where upset with the Townshend act. -
This gave the East India Company a tax break on their tea, which made it cheaper than tea that was being smuggled into the colonies from other places. -
340 chests of British East India Company Tea, weighing over 92,000 pounds ( about 46 tons), that where on the ships the Beaver, Dartmouth, and Eleanor were smashed open by the Sons of Liberty. Who where armed with many different axes and the chests of tea where dumped into Boston Harbor the night of December 16, 1773. -
The four acts against the american colonies by the British were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. -
The Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence - the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America - that was written by Jefferson in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. -
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax in the revolutionary war. The American defeat of the superior British army lifted patriot morale, furthered the hope for independence, and helped to secure the foreign support needed to win the war. -
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States on September 3, 1783, officially ended the American Revolutionary and recognized the United States as a independent nation. -
A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than slaves. It was invented in the United States by Eli Whitney in 1794.