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Pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and the American Indian allies
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Issued by King George lll following Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America.
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Parliament passed the the sugar act of 1764. It was the first tax enacted by the British against the colonists
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The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765.
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Britain passes the Stamp Act, imposing a tax on legal documents, newspapers, even playing cards. This is the first direct tax on the American colonists and is hotly resisted.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of British Acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 and relating to the British in North America.
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British army soldiers shot shot and killed five people under harassment by locals
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
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Laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston tea party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists.
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The battle was the true start of the American Revolution against Great Britain “The shot heard around the world”
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Largest battle of the Revolutionary war, British remained control over New York.
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This was the first real victory of the Revolutionary war
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This was known as the turning point of the war
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It ended in a long- term victory for the Americans
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This was the most important battle in the Revolutionary war, and this ended the fighting for the American colonists.
