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The British colonies and French colonies started fighting, but French teamed up Native-Americans and the British colonies where getting their bums beat so they called for the British army and they had to fight for them. British army/colonies won.
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King George the Third proclaimed that the Colonies could not buy or use land past the Appellation mountains, this restricted resources and anyone traveling had to be approved by British soldiers. This made tensions higher.
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British government decided to start new tariffs on everyday items such as sugar, wine, coffee, fabrics that were imported into the colonies. This made colonialists angry, they didn't think this was fair being they had no input on it. With this the Committee of Correspondence was formed. The CoC's goal was to help colonist be informed about what the British were doing.
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The Stamp Act put an extra tax on paper. All official papers had to have a stamp on them, one that had to be paid for. This was another tax on the colonists that they had no say in. Later on in June the Sons of Liberty protested the Stamp Act, demanding that British Parliament repeal it.
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Colonist began to provoke British soldiers who retailed by killing five colonists. This sparked outrage among many, knowing people had been killed unjustly. This rage only continued when the Intolerable Acts laws where passed, meaning this sort of action was permitted and ultimately encouraged.
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It was made so that colonists were only allowed to buy tea from Britain who had added tax to the tea.
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The Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans, boarding a British ship and throwing 342 crates of tea overboard, meaning any money that was to be made on the tea was now completely gone. They did this in protest of outrageous taxation of imported tea.
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The Quartering act meant any British solider could demand to stay in a colonists house. If this solider found anything that wasn't British they would often burn it. This made many angry as they felt this was violating their rights.
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King George the third passed laws that meant British would take complete control of the colonies until the tea that had been thrown overboard had been paid for. This punished both loyalists and rebels, of course this did not go over well, the colonies began to store weapons and would eventually start a militia.
