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The Navigation Acts increased colonial revenue by taxing the goods going to and from British colonies. The Navigation Acts (particularly their effect on trade in the colonies) were one of the direct economic causes of the American Revolution. -
The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
The British were in debt from the war so they taxed the Colonies to get more money. -
The Colonists were mad at the British government for all of the taxes. The Colonists were throwing rocks and snowballs at the soldiers and the soldiers shot at the Colonists. -
In an effort to save the troubled enterprise, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies. -
The Boston Tea Party was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists. It showed Great Britain that Americans wouldn’t take taxation and tyranny sitting down, and rallied American patriots across the 13 colonies to fight for independence. -
Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts. This led the Colonies to start thinking about the Revolutionary War. -
The First Continental Congress was prompted by the Coercive Acts, known in America as the Intolerable Acts, which Parliament passed in early 1774 to reassert its dominance over the American colonies following the Boston Tea Party. -
The British tried to seize the colonies weapons. This ended up being the first battle of the Revolutionary War. -
The Revolutionary War led to delegates from the 13 colonies meeting in Philadelphia to plot their course of war. -
The British were taxing everything in the colonies. The Colonists made a document to declare their independence from Britain. -
The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the American Revolution. It gave the Patriots a major morale boost and persuaded the French, Spanish and Dutch to join their cause against a mutual rival. -
A lack of organization, food and money shortages plagued the Continental Army throughout the first half of the seven-year-long revolution. These problems exacerbated the harsh living conditions at Valley Forge, during the third year of the war. -
The outcome in Yorktown, Virginia marked the conclusion of the last major battle of the American Revolution and the start of a new nation's independence. -
In 1787 representatives from the 13 colonies all came together to form a central government. This government established The U.S’s national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. -
The Constitution of the United States established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens.