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A period when spirituality and religious devotion were revived. This feeling swept all through the American colonies.
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The North American colonies of the British Empire fought against those of the French, each side being supported by Native American tribes, all for control of the Upper Ohio River Valley.
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The act required colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers and documents. It was a direct tax imposed by the British government without the approval of the colonial legislatures.
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A series of British acts of Parliament, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea; to help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies.
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British troops guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing 5 colonists.
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American colonists in an act of protest threw chests of tea into the Boston Harbor, to agitate against both a tax on tea and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.
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It was the military conflict of the American Revolution, where American patriot forces under George Washington's command defeated the British, therefore securing the independence of the United States.
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It signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war. The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord.
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The document announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. It was the last of a series of steps that led the colonies to final separation from Great Britain, declaring their Independence.
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This ended the American Revolutionary War. American statesmen negotiated the peace treaty with representatives of King George III of Great Britain. The British Crown formally recognized American independence and ceded most of its territory east of the Mississippi River to the United States.