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Political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. They dumped British tea into the Boston harbor.
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A series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston tea party. The laws were to punish the colonists that helped throw the tea into the harbor.
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The first ever military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Fought between the British and the Patriots.
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George Washington was assigned chief of the Continental army.
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The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, John Adams, and Robert R. Livingston.
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A battle between the Continental Army and the British. The Continental Army lost this battle.
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General Howe and the Continental army fought the British from taking over their freedom. The British wanted to end the rebellion.
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American and French troops had to hold off the British using only cannons. It was a decisive victory for the Patriots. They were led by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis and Comte de Rochambeau.
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Signed by Paris representatives of King George III (British), and representatives of the United States.
