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The war began because the British felt they needed to prevent the French from gaining control over trade and territories that the British thought were rightfully thiers.
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a tax that required the colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used
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An act that put custom duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed
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The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies.
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The boston tea party was a protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade.They did so by dumping british tea in to the boston harbor
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They were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of its colonies
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,[2] then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
