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The end of the French and Indian War in 1763 was a cause for great celebration in the colonies, for it removed several ominous barriers and opened up a host of new opportunities for the colonists.
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament.The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier
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The killing of 5 American colonists by British Regulars. It was the culmination of tensions in the american colonies that has been growig sense royal troops first appeared in massachusettes to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the townshed Acts.
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A gropu of colonists protestthirteen years of increasing British opression, by attacking merchant shpis in the boston harbor. In retaliation the British closed the port and inflict even harsher penalties
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The American Patriot's Name for a series of punative laws passed by the British Parliament afyter the boston tea party. They were meant to punish the massechusettes for the defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into the harbor
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Was Britain's unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole, to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on American colonies late in the Seventeenth and early in the eighteenth century
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a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer,in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts
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Challenged the authority in the British government and th royal monarchy.Spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence frolm Great Britain
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, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, and on the following day 12 of the 13 colonies voted in favor of Richard Henry Lee's motion for independence
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The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. It established a weak central government that mostly, but not entirely, prevented the individual states from conducting their own foreign diplomacy.
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British troops had marched triumphantly into Philadelphia the previous autumn. Philadelphia was the largest city in the Colonies and the seat of political power. After the British swept into Philadelphia, the Continental Congress had flee to west, first to Lancaster then to York.
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British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. General Cornwallis brought 8,000 British troops to Yorktown. They expected help from British ships sent from New York. The British ships never arrived.
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The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America ended the American Revolutionary War.
