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Since the British wanted to avoid further wars with native americans the issued the Proclamation of 1763. It would'nt let anyone go and settle in the west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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The stamp acty was a direct tax made by the british parliment. People had to have stamps on certain supplies and the stamps were the tax.
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight between patriots and soldiers. The patriots were using rocks and stones while the soldiers fired line after line of gun ammo.
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The Battle of Alamance is fought in NC because of taxation and local government is a battle of local government vs. the king.
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A group of Americans called the sons of liberty organized an attack on the east india company. They unloaded the tea that the ship that held the tea was on.
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The Congress demanded the official end of the Intolerable Acts and stated that colonists have rights on decideing the goverment and tax's themselves. The Congress also decided to make a new boycott on British goods.
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This was a meeting about what to do about the delegates from New England wanting to declare independence.Nearly all of the delegates thought they needed to prepare for war.
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The British General William Howe had decided to attack straight up a hill. More than a 1000 British soldiers were killed and 400 Americans also, but the British won the fight, but not without a fatal blow.
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The Declaration of Independence was basically a writing stating America's independence once they had independece from Britian. There were also reason why the colonists wanted to break away from Britian.
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A rebellion in New York that changed the thoughts of all americians. It rose hopes that americans had a chance of beating the British when they made this victory,
