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was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America. -
The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists.
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The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought in the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War.
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the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle because of the presence of Germans in all three armies. -
This treaty, signed on September 3, 1783, between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.
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provided a dual system of congressional representation. In the House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population.
