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During the 1700s, the French had developed a trading pact with the neighboring Natives of Ohio, this lead to the British wanting in on this trade, and a war over the rights of the land. The British won. -
Paris after the war, gave all their territories to the British post defeat -
The British got stricter with its policies, now the American colonizers could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains -
British taxes colonies on sugar importing -
British places a tax on all forms of paper -
Quartering was for the housing and feeding of British troops, and the Townshed act was to help enforce the policy -
A collection of people who were protesting the acts get shot and killed including one British solider -
British placed tax on all forms of colonial tea -
A collection of anti British colonist trash thousands of pounds of tea into the Boston harbor in protest -
The name the US colonies gave all the aforementioned acts -
A group of political scholars got together to form the first ever congress of the USA. They told the people to boycott materials from the British -
a battle fought in charlestown british won -
the first official battle of the war, the colonist won. -
Representatives from the colonies unite to define the united states and the war -
A last chance ditch effort to the king of England to not have a war declared -
A paper written by thomas paine for the Independence from england -
A document listing out the laws and rights of the people of the United States -
General George Washington defeated the British -
Crushing defeat of the colonies from the British. Took over a valued cort. -
Colonies took over the hudsen river from the british -
A huge amount of colonial and British soliders died at this point due to disease. -
Increase american moral and strengthened the army -
Three week battle that the colonies eventually won -
Recongised the USA as a major territory