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Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists killing 5 men in what was know as the Boston Massacre
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After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
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These were passed in response to the Boston Tea Party and placed restrictions on the colonists such as outlawing the town meetings and closing off the Boston Habor
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A group of colonial delegates met in Philadelphia in September 1774, to give their voice to grievances against he British crown.
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The conflict arose from growing tensions between resident of Great Britain's 13 North American colonies and the colonial government also know as the British crown.
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In April 1775 kicked armed conflict and by the following summer rebels were waging a full scale war for their independence
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The Continental congress voted to meet again in May 1775 to consider further action, but by that time violence had already broken
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France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778 turning what had essentially been a civil war into an international war
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Virginia in 1781 the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783
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On April 19, local militiamen clashed with British soldiers in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts marking the first shots fired in the Revolutionary war
