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He wanted to reach the Asia ( The Indies ) stopped to soon because he thouhght he reached Asia and really went to America
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The war fought between between the French and the British for control of North America
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The king forbade colonist from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains with this new law.
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This put a new tax on molasses
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A 1765 law that placed new duties on legal documents and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, and dice.
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A 1770 incident in which five colonists were killed by British troops.
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A 1773 protest in which colonists dressed as Indians dumped tea into Boston Harbor
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In 1775, the conflicts between Masscheutts colonists and British soliders that started the Revoluntionary War.
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1776 document stating that the 13 English colonies were a free, indepent nation
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In the Battle of Long Island more than 1,400 Americans were killed, wounded, or captured. The rest retreated to Manhattan.
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George Washington crosses the Delaware river and leads a suprise attack aganist the Hessians in Trenton New Jersey
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Major turning point in the war. It ended the British threat to New England
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Washinton's Continental Army began preparing for the winter 1777-1778 by building a makeshift camp at Velley Forge
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During the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, Mary Ludwig Hayes carried water to her husband and other soilders.
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The British hadd lost the Battle of Yorktown.
