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Was a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required many printed materials in the colonies be produced on paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp
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A series of measures passed by British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American Colonists who had no representation in Parliament saw the acts as abuse of power.
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A confrontation that British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston -
A political protest that the American Colonists frustrated with Britain for imposing "taxation without representation" dumped 342 chests of tea imported by the British East India Company into the harbor -
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
The Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War
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They were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought in 1775 in Middle sex county, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Menotomy, and Cambridge -
Fought during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolution. Was an American colonists moral victory as they killed more British then the British killed them. -
An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III -
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to show that the King does not actually care for them/us. -
The formal proclamation that the colonies would now be an independent country separate from Great Britain -
Was the first time Washington's forces defeated a regular army in the field. -
Battle won by Americans in 1777, it was the turning point of the revolution
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Battle that gave Americans victory in war
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The Treaty that officially ended the war