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Colonial restiance
Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists killing 5 men in what was know as the Boston Massacre -
Tea dumped in the Boston Harbor
After December 1773, when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor -
Intorable Acts
These were passed in response to the Boston Tea Party and placed restrictions on the colonists such as outlawing the town meetings and closing off the Boston Habor -
Colonial Delegates
A group of colonial delegates met in Philadelphia in September 1774, to give their voice to grievances against he British crown. -
The being of the American Revoultion
The conflict arose from growing tensions between resident of Great Britain's 13 North American colonies and the colonial government also know as the British crown. -
American Revolution
In April 1775 kicked armed conflict and by the following summer rebels were waging a full scale war for their independence -
The Continental Congress voted
The Continental congress voted to meet again in May 1775 to consider further action, but by that time violence had already broken -
France entering the American Revolution
France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778 turning what had essentially been a civil war into an international war -
America Won Independence
Virginia in 1781 the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783 -
First Shots
On April 19, local militiamen clashed with British soldiers in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts marking the first shots fired in the Revolutionary war
