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Tax on Legal documents. Required that a stamp be bought for all legal documents and other items.
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Parliament puts duties on imported goods.
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A drunken mob harrarses British soldiers. Soldiers fire their muskets pointblank into the crowd, killing three, wounding two others, and injuring six others.
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Colonists disguised as Indians went abroad three ships broke open the crates, and dumped out 45 tons of tea.
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Series of laws passed by parliament as a result of the Boston Tea Party. they were placed to attempt to punish the colonists.
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Delegates from 1st congress gather again. The Americans were in that some leaned towad independence and others toward compromise, coloional self-rule.
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Ameican troops occupied two hills north of Boston; Breeds Hill and Bunker Hill. On June 17th, 1775, the British attacked. They launched three assualts on the Patriots. On the third attack, the British succeeded and captured Breeds Hill.
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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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This was an important document that expressed both levels of the Revolution. The author wrote in a simple, direct syle that suggested that anyone could understand the conflict between Great Britian and the Colonists.
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The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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The Battle of Trenton took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey.
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The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. On October 17, 1777, 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms.
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In 1781, the Congress emds.
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A decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.
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Formally ended the Revolutionary War.
