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It is the name given to the 7 year war that North America had with the major powers of Europe. Though war was not formally declared until 1756, armed conflict began in 1754 as disputes over land claims in the Ohio Valley.
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Issued by King George III. It followed the Treaty Paris, which formally ended the Seven Years War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain.
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It was the British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies.
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It angered the colonists because they had opposed the direct tax imposed by the Stamp Act. The new taxes further fueled the anger regarding the injustice of taxation without representation.
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It was a confrontation where British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
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It was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
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Incedent in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians.
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They were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. Their purpose was to punish the colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
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Delegates from each of the 14 Colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
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The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. It was a document in which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and asserted their rights as British citizens.
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It was the first battle of the American Revolution. It was fought at Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.
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A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia. It was held after the American Revolution had already begun. The point of it was to prove that America had all of the independence it needed from Britain.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
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On this day, Thomas Paine finishes his pamphlet which further argues for American independence.
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Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence declaring independence for America from Britain.
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It was a small but pivotal battle. It significantly boosted the Continental Army's waning morale, and inspired re-enlistments.
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It functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body.
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It was a closely related engagement in the autumn that was basically the turning point of the American Revolutionary War.
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Benedict Arnold was an American military officer who served during the War. He fought with distinction for the Army, rising to the rank of major general, before defecting to the British side of the conflict in 1780. George Washington had given him his full trust in which Arnold would try to surrender the fort to British. However, his plans were discovered and got tons of troops killed.
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A British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and his army surrendered to George Washington and his army, its was more than just military win. This battle had marked the conclusion to the American Revolution and the start of a new nation's independence. It also told everyone how good of a leader George Washington was.
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It was signed in Paris by the representatives of King George III and of the USA which ended the American Revolutionary War.
