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The American Indians were fighting to maintain control of their land and their cultural future, ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
Passed the first law specifically aimed at raising colonial money for the Crown, also taxing wine, coffee, and textiles, and banned the direct shipment of several important commodities such as lumber to Europe -
Followed the Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the Seven Years' War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain. -
It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards. -
Stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever." -
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. (Parliament passed the bill on March 31, 1774, and King George III gave it royal assent on May 20th.) -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest. -
Granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales. -
Were major American victory, one that assured critical international recognition and aid and helped secure the independence of the United States. (there were actually two battles, September 19, 1777 and October 7, 1777) -
Initially British control was aimed to protect the trade route to the East, however, the British soon realized the potential to develop the Cape for their own needs. -
Marked the start of the American War of Independence. -
The first true battle of the Revolutionary War was to prove the bloodiest of the entire conflict. -
In August 1776 British General Howe attacked Washington and forced the Americans to retreat. There were many American casualties in this New York battle. -
A Continental Army force led by George Washington successfully repulsed a British attack in Trenton, New Jersey by soldiers under the command of Lord Charles Cornwallis. -
The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British effort in the American Revolutionary War to gain control of Philadelphia, the Revolutionary-era capital where the Second Continental Congress convened and signed the Declaration of Independence, which formalized and escalated the war. -
Regular freezing and thawing, plus intermittent snowfall and rain, coupled with shortages of provisions, clothing, and shoes, made living conditions extremely difficult. -
Outnumbered and outfought during a three-week siege in which they sustained great losses, British troops surrendered to the Continental Army and their French allies. This last major land battle of the American Revolution led to negotiations for peace with the British and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783. -
Britain may have lost 13 colonies in America, but it retained Canada and land in the Caribbean, Africa, and India. It began to expand in these regions, building what has been called the "Second British Empire," which eventually became the largest dominion in world history.