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Britain and France had colonies in North America. The British wanted to settle in the Ohio River Valley and to trade with the Native Americans who lived there. The French built forts to protect their trade with the Indians.
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the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.
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British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men.
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tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots
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The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
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was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord kicked off the American Revolutionary War
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in 1775.
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the British defeated the Americans
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was an attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown.
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Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense, setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence.
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the declaration of independence was a breakup letter
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the confederates cross the Delaware to attack the british
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After a brief battle, almost two-thirds of the Hessian force was captured.
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a win for the Americans.
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it was a camp for confederate soldiers
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an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution
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the battle of Yorktown is when the British decided not to keep fighting
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The Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolutionary War.
