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The British colonies were in war with the French and Indians for land. After the war Colonist wouldn't be able to expand towards the west America.
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Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. Colonial Merchants were forced to pay taxes.
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British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under harassment by locals. It began with a riot and had 5 men dead
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The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. Colonist were protesting that taxes should be remove from tea.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. Congress needed to develop a completely new system of government.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Second Congress managed the colonial war effort, financing the war.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. No one knew who shot first, but it lead to many Colonist dead.
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New England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. Bloody fighting took place throughout a hilly landscape of fenced pastures. British won the battle.
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The Declaration announced that the Thirteen Colonies at war with Great Britain would regard themselves as thirteen independent states, no longer under British rule. This was a break up letter to Britain.
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This was the Surrender of England. This battle ended the revolutionary war.
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The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America. Witch ended the American Revolutionary War.
