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the Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was simply required documents such as licenses, diplomas, contracts and even playing cards be printed on embossed paper that had a tax on it. Now the British saw this as nothing wrong, and expected them to pay it, but got rebellious peple not paying the taxes, and this is where it started to snowball... http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/stamp-act.html#gallery[pageGallery]/2/ -
Boston Massacre
Tensions where high between the Colonist and the British, and on March 5th and group of colonist gathered and began to throw snowballs at a patrol of British soldiers, the Soldiers got mad and took matters into there own hands, the fired into the group of people without direction of there Team Leader, and Paul Revere's inaccurate painting of what really happened blew it out of the water, the Patriot didn't expect this reaction http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/revolut/jb_revolut_boston_1.htm -
Tea Tax (Boston Tea Party)
In 1773 the British East India tea company was going under, now to help with that, the British put a tax on the tea, and shipped it to the Colonies, they didn't like it, NOT ONE BIT. So I one of the greatest acts of defiance they dressed up as Mohawk Indians an boarded the shops and began dumping tea into the habor, they dumped over 92,000 pounds of tea. The British saw this as a act of defiance, and seized control of the Boston harbor http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-tea-act -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord http://www.ushistory.org/us/11c.asp
In the late hours of April 19th, General Gage and his group of men where sent out to capture Samuel Adams and John Handcock at Lexington then go and seize a gunpowder stash at Concord. On there way to Lexington, the ran into a group of people with guns, they held there ground, and started to walk away, and that's when what was believed to be a person tripping an accidently discharging there rifle. Simply, the Colonist won at Lexington and Concord, but this was the start of something bigger.. -
Battle of (Breed's) Bunker Hill http://www.britishbattles.com/bunker-hill.htm
On June 17th, 1775, on the north side of the Boston harbor, the Colonist where waiting at the top of Bunker hill, the British marched forward and where mowed down from Continental army gun fire, during this the British where flanking around the back side of the forces, and when they fled because of low ammo, they where caught off guard with British soldiers to there rear, and they where slaughtered, the British thought that one battle would end it all, which it almost did -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in the 1775-1776 times, which it basically said that that the Colonist need to rally together and separate from Great Britain, and to fight for a egalitarian government. The Colonist didn't know they had the right to separate from there home country. -
The Declaration of Independence
On July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed by 56 delegates of the Continental congress, which marked the start of two things, America, and the start of the Revolution war. It was paper which basically said that the Colonies where going to separate from Great Britain, in doing this they basically signed a declaration of war. Which the British didn't know they wanted to become there own country, they where suprised http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charter/declaration_timeline.html -
Continental Wintering at Valley Forge
On December 19, 1777, the Continental Army stationed there army at Valley Forge, Washington put his Army on the west bank of the Schuylkill river, to be in a tactically adventive position, if the British attacked, but the winter that year was brutal in the NE, and 11,000 soldiers died to the brutal winter conditions, and hundreds to disease, the British army knew the Colonist couldn't move http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/continental-army-enters-winter-camp-at-valley-forge -
The Battles of Trenton and Princetion
General George Washington crossed the Delaware river to Trenton, New Jersey and opened fire at the Hessian's who where sleeping in there houses, the Continental Army moved on to Princeton, where they outmaneuvered General Cornwallis and executed a decisive victory at both locations. The British didn't anticipate them to attack, since they had a cease fire. http://www.britishbattles.com/battle-princeton.htm -
Battle of Saratoga
On October 7, 1777 Continental forces clashed to the south of Saratoga against the forces of British army lead by John Burgoyne, who had lost most of his soldiers in the march from Canada, to New York. The British took a hit, and where wrecked by the Continental Army, the British though they had it in the bag, but where met with people firing from the trees http://www.ushistory.org/us/11g.asp -
War in the South
The British landed in Savannah, Georgia seized Savannah, then marched to Charleston, where they seize the southern army. Then marched threw the Carolina's, where they lost a lot of battles, and where forced out of the Carolina's in Virginia. The British thought there where going to maintain control of the southern colonies, but Nathanael Greene and the Continental army forced them out of the southern colonies. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h688.html -
The Battle of Yorktown
On September 28th to October 19th of 1781 the Americans surrounded the Yorktown, Virginia which was recently captured by the British as they lost hold of the Carolina's. After the British realized it would be a lost cause to fight back, since they where surrounded and outnumbered, the only thing there was to do was to surrender, which effectively ended the war.
The British knew they where done for, and surrendered http://www.britishbattles.com/battle-yorktown.htm
