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The French and Indian war was a war between French and British. Indians sided with French and Colonies sided with Britain. France and Britain fought over land in the colonies, the war lasted 9 years. The fight was over territory and recources.
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The Proclamation established a line along the Apalachian Mountain so the Colonist were unable to cross. Colonist ignored the proclamation because they were eager to expand
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The Sugar act did three things. IT halved the duty on foreign-made molasses in the hopes that colonists would pay a lower tax rather than risk arrest vby smuggling. It placed duties certain imports that had not been taxed before. Most important, It provided that colonists acussed of violation the act act would be tried in a vice-admiralty court rather than a colonial court.
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The act imposed to tax all American Colonist on every piece of printed paper, documents, stamps, wills, newpaper, cards, etc.
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Boston shop keepers organize a secret rebellion group. Led by Samuel Adams they boycotted goods and taxes.
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The acts imposed taxes on tea, glass, paint, lead, and paper. Samuel Adams and the sons of liberty boycotted these goods.
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A group of group protesters were shot at by redcoats, five men died.
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The act granted to companyies to sell tea to the colonies without taxes
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The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
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The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston.
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On June 17, 1775, early in the Revolutionary War (1775-83), the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies, that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict.
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Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776
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the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. An example of the Declaration of Independence was the document adopted at the Second Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776.
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Valley Forge in Pennslyvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental army
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Prussian military officer arrives at valley forge at Washingtons camp instilling dicipline and training
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The Battles of Saratoga marked a climax of the saratoga campaign giving victory to Americans over British.
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BRITISH GENERAL CHARELS CORNWALLIS AT YORKTOWN MEANT AN ENDINGOF FIGHTING AND AMERICAN LIBERATION
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NEGOTIATION U.S AND GREAT BRITAIN ENDED THE WAR AND GRANTED AMERICAN LIBERATION
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John Adams led a group of protesters to dress up like Native Americans and dump tea into the harbor they dump 1 million dollars worth of tea into the harbor
