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France's expansion into the Ohio River Valley led to conflict with the British colonies. A series of battles occured until 1756. The Mississippi Valley started to go westward to expansion.
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The stamp act was passed by the British parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was to require all American colonists to pay taxes for every single piece of paper they buy. The money from taxes was to be used for paying the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. The reason the people were so angry at the new taxes is because they saw it as an attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures
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The killing of five colonists on March 5, 1770. It was the series of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.
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Samuel and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the boston harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea overboard. They did this because they didn't like the taxes on the tea. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.
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Series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. It was meant to punish Massachusetts colonists for throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
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First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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A document written by Thomas Jefferson and it states the reasons the British colonies of North American sought Independence.
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2 battles that gave the coup de grace to the 1777 British invasion from Canada during the American Revolutionary War.
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Americans and French against the British during the American Revolutionary War in Virginia.
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Negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
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The Constitution is our plan for government. It states our Three branches of government
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The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
