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It was a boost of invention and art as well as creativity. Everyone became curious and began to explore the world.
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The Sons of Liberty were extremists that resulted to chaos and violence to outrage the British government. -
The British began to tax all newspapers and documents and even playing cards. The Americans began to campaign to have the act repealed.
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The Townshend Act was taxes the British put in on imported goods. The Americans were angry because there is no representation on what gets to be taxed so they found it extremely unfair. -
The Boston Massacre. Late in the afternoon of March 5, 1770, British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
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12/13 colonies met to discuss the abuse of Britain's powers and the future of the colonies.
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Intolerable Acts, also called Coercive Acts, (1774), in U.S. colonial history, four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance, together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the territory ceded to Britain after the French and Indian War -
Second Continental Congress: The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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“We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest purest constitution on the face of the earth,” Paine wrote. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” https://www.history.com/news/thomas-paine-common-sense-revolution -
The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence occurred primarily on July 4, 1776, at the Pennsylvania State House, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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On September 28, 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary
