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There were no colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains but the colonists moved west anyway going against the Proclamation.
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Taxes were created on foreign-made molasses in the hopes of Colonists would stop smuggling. Colonists continued to smuggle ignoring the Act.
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This Act required colonist to purchase special stamped paper fir every legal document. The Sons of Liberty harassed custom workers, stamp agents, and sometime royal governors.
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Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and to make its power clear they issued the Declaratory Act.
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What was once just a simple fight turned into five colonists being killed. Samuel Adams turned this situation to propaganda to show a British attack on defenseless citizens.
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The Colonists dumped 18,000 pounds of the East India Company's tea into the waters of the Boston Harbor to prove a point that they disagree with the Tea Act.
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This is the response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament shut down Boston Harbor, placed a Quartering Act to place the soldiers in homes, and placed Boston under martial law.
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Happened Christmas night, crossing of the Delaware. Defeated the drunken Hessian in fifteen minutes.
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In this battle George Washington defeats 1200 redcoats. The Battle of Princeton and Trenton both rose morale enlistment.
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This battle was unrealistic and unorganized but also the turning point of the war. It resulted in French aid which Ben Franklin was responsible for.
