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Sugar Act and Stamp Act Controversies
The sugar law was designed to bring down colonial trade with countries other than Britain, especially France and Spain with colonies in the West Indies while increasing revenue to pay British debt. The strict application of the law achieved its objective of reducing the smuggling that affected the colonial economy, especially in Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. -
Boston Tea Party
The boston tea party took place in Boston, a small event that had a series of incredible consequences for the colonies. The reprisals of the English were not long in coming, blocking the port of Boston and creating a series of intolerable laws, with great deprivation of liberty for the colonists. -
Revolution begins with fighting at Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington was the first military clash of the American War of Independence. It happened on April 19, 1775, between about 70 colonial militiamen, known by the name of minutemen, commanded by Captain John Parker, and about 800 British soldiers advancing towards Concord (Massachusetts), under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith. Held by Captain Parker, the Americans refused to disperse when ordered by the head of the British advance units, who opened fire. -
Declaration of Independence
On July 4, 1776, the United States Congress approved the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson, wrote the Declaration as a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the United States Revolutionary War. , and how the statement announced that the thirteen American colonies were no longer part of the British Empire. Congress published the Declaration of Independence in several ways. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown took place during the War of Independence of the United States of America between September 26 and October 19, 1781. He confronted the American insurgents and their French allies of the Marquis de La Fayette against the British in command of Lord Cornwallis
