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The American phase of a worldwide nine years’ war fought between France and Great Britain.
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The Stamp Act was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British Empire.
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Townshend Acts were passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties.
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Small British army detachment that was threatened by mob harassment opened fire and killed five people, an incident soon known as the Boston Massacre.
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A party of Bostonians thinly disguised as Mohawk people boarded ships at anchor and dumped some £10,000 worth of tea into the harbor, an event popularly known as the Boston Tea Party.
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The British Parliament enacted four measures that became known as the Intolerable (or Coercive) Acts: the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and Quartering Act.
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Description The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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The contiental army had suffered from some deafeats when they were New York ,the U.S. did take the victory.
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Thomas Jefferson drafted the declaration of independence. Also John Adams made 86 more changes to the declaration.
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They had 11,000 army men at valley forge,there was a severe weather ,hundreds of men got a disease and began to die.
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saratoga gave the Americans a victory and in the american revolutionary war.
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General Washington placed 11,000 between Howe and Pennsylvania.All 11,000 men were outmaneuvered and they drove back from the battle of brandywine.
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None of the new slaves were allowed to be imported to the U.S,but old slaves were allowed to be imported
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The british surrendered the Yorktown,it ended major land operations
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The treaty of Paris was the official peace of the U.S. and the British that ended the american revolutionary war