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King George III following Great Britain acquisition of french territory in North America after the end of the french and Indian war a seven year war which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the appalachian mountains
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The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled british east india company
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an act of the british parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the american colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
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quartering act is a name given to a minimum of two acts of british parliament in the local governments of the american colonies to provide the british soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing
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the Declaratory Act was an act of the parliament of great britain which accompanied the repeal of the stamp act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the sugar act
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The townshend acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the parliament of great britain relating to the british colonies in north america
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by british regulars
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The Committees of Correspondence rallied colonial opposition against british policy and established a political union among the thirteen colonies
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the sons of liberty in boston
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The Intolerable Acts were the american patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the boston tea party
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The revolutionary war began with the confrontation between British troops and local militia at lexington and concord massachusetts on 19 April 1775.
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The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington Massachusetts the morning of the 19th
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Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1776 advocating independence from great britain to people in the thirteen colonies.
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at war with the kingdom of great britain regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states and no longer under british rule Instead they formed a new nation
