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The treaty of Paris ended the war. France ceded all of it's North American possessions to Britain.
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It was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British empire.
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Passed by the British parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be it's historic right to exert authority over the colonies.
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British army detachment open fired and killed five people. They were charged with murder.
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Protesting both attacks on tea and the monopoly of the East India Company, a party of Bostonians boarded ships and dumped 10,000 euro worth of tea into the harbor.
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British parliament enacted four measures that became known as Intolerable acts: The Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice act, and Quartering act.
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The First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. 56 delegates represented all the colonies except Georgia.
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Convinced that war with Great Britain was inevitable, Patrick Henry gave this speech.
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Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn that the British were marching from Boston to seize the colonial armory at concord. It sparked a squirmish that left 8 Americans dead. Total losses numbered 273 British and more than 90 Americans.
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Battle of Bunker Hill was part of the American siege of British held Boston. The battle was a moral victory for the American.
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This 50-page pamphlet sold more than 100,000 copies within a few months.
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The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson. Congress recommended that colonies formed their own governments.
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On September 21, 1776, Nathan Hale was captured by the British. He was hanged the next day without trial for having penetrated the British lines to obtain information.
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George Washington and the continental army crossed the Delaware River and took 900 prisoners.
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A British force under Gen. John Burgoyne captured Fort Ticonderoga. Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga.
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Washington and 11,000 regulars took up winter quarters at valley forge. The reorganized continental army emerged the following June.
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The French have secretly furnished financial and material aid to the Americans since 1776. The Franco-American alliance was formalized.
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The American commander John Paul Jones proclaimed "I have not yet begun to fight!" He lost his ship in the process when he refused to surrender.
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American general Benedict Arnold conspired with the British to surrender the fort at west point new york. Arnold took sanctuary with the British.
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Washington's army placed Yorktown under siege and Cornwallis surrendered his army
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A plan of a government organization that served as a bridge between the initial government by the Continental Congress and the federal government. It was fully ratified by the states on March 1, 1781.
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British recognized the independence of the United States with generous boundaries.
