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Part of a larger war called the seven years war. that was ended with the treaty of paris
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the sugar act reiterated the old sugar and molasses act requiring people to pay a tax of 3 pence per gallon of sugar
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The Boston Massacre was a famous pre-revolutionary incident that involved redcoats who were quartered in the city, fired into a rioting mob killing five American civilians.
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this was an act to help the lesser people of the company to get tea from the west indies who had an abundance of it in hundreds of warehouses
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a group of settlers dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded ship and through 342 tea chests into the hudson
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this act forced settlers to house British soldiers in there home and provide for them
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his speech proposed that a militia of sorts be formed in every Virginia county. the closing to his speech famed quote "give me liberty or give me death"
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A group of British soldiers march towards Lexington and Paul revere found out and told the colonists to get reading and had the soldiers retreating within hours
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A British attack on a french fort causing the french garrison to retreat and lose the fort
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a leader of the revolutionary movement in Virginia, a former commander of Virginia's frontier forces, was commissioned "commander-in-chief of the army of the United Colonies
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the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy,
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a phamplet declaring freedom for the colonies
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The thirteen colonies declaring freedom from England and explaining there rights
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His surrender to American forces at the Battle of Saratoga marked a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
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Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army
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France's interest in the American fight for independence stemmed from France's humiliating defeat during the Seven Years War
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Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army
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The Continental Congress named a five-member commission to negotiate a treaty
