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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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the colonists were fighting the British about taxing things.
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The Boston Tea Party was a direct protest by colonists in Boston against the Tea Tax that had been imposed by the British government.
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First Revolutionary Battle at Lexington and Concord. In April 1775, when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775 at Charlestown, Massachusetts and was the first important battle of the American War of Independence
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In Common Sense, Thomas Paine argues for American independence. His argument begins with more general, theoretical reflections about government and religion, then progresses onto the specifics of the colonial situation.
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House
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In the Battle of Trenton, Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing.
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an army base where the Americans spent their winter
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Fought eighteen days apart in the fall of 1777, the two Battles of Saratoga were a turning point in the American Revolution
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it was when general charles lee succesfully repelled the british attack
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The significance of the conflict was that Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown
