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The French and Indian War is the common name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America, the war is also known as the Seven Years' War.
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It established British had land from west of the Appalachians and south of Hudson Bay to the Floridas and ordered all settlers to withdraw.
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The British king placed a tax on sugar, molasses, ect. The people in the colonies were worried that Britain would start making them spend more and more money for their goods through taxes.
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The new tax said that all American colonists were required to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. This act was viewed as an attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures.
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This document stated the end of the Stamp Acts. The government repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify this repeal.
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The Townshend Acts applied taxes to paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea imported by the colonies.
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British soldiers fired their weapons into a crowd of people and killed five men. This triggered angry citizens.
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It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was struggling financially with about eighteen million pounds of unsold tea.
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A group of coloniest disguised as Native Americans dumped around 345 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
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The colonies were pressed with greater taxes without any representation in Britain. This eventually lead to the Boston Tea Party.
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Lexington and Concord were the battles of the opening engagements of the American Revolution.
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A war between Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America. Seen to the colonies as their last chance to gain independence.
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Took place on the Charlestown Peninsula on the North side of Boston Harbor. The American Colonists defeated the British.
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It was delivered by Richard Penn to the King in London .The King refused to see him or the document. It was an effort by the Americans to resolve differences with Britain and to avoid the Revolutionary War. An olive branch is a symbol of peace, which was the purpose of the petition.
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The message Paine sent from the American Colonies was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
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The Americans, who were led by George Washington, forced the British to withdraw from the town after an 11-month siege.
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Document ment to sperate the original 13 colonies from their British King.
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General Washington had been preparing his men as well as he could under the circumstances that his troops faced. Washington was at disadvantage by the British control of the sea, which allowed them to conceivably attack either Long Island or Manhattan.
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Washington's troops acheived a surprise attack and defeated the British troops. The American victory was the first of the war, and helped to boost the confidence of the American soldiers.
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The British force was made up of 5,000 British, Brunswickers, Canadians and Indians. By the time of the surrender the American force was around 12,000 to 14,000 militia and troops.
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The intention was to surprise the whole British army similar to the way the Hessians had been surprised at Trenton.
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Declared the colonies as free and independent states, and provided the legal documation needed to record their freedom.
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For Washington's winter encampment, he selected Valley Forge on the Schuylkill River approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia. This area was extremely cold during the winter of 1777.
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The defenders ended up surrendering and it was the greatest loss of soldiers and equipment of the war for the Americans and gave the British a majority of the control of the Southern colonies.
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This battle was a British victory, and The American losses were enormous, nearly 1000 men killed and 1000 captured.
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The Battle of Yorktown was the last major engagement of the American Revolution.
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Ended the American Revolution between Britain and the 13 American colonies.
