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As a result, the British had to place a sizable military force in North America and on 22 March 1765, the British Parliament approved the Stamp Act, aiming to generate funds for this army by imposing a tax on all legal and official documents and publications in the colonies. -
Boston Massacre is a clash between the British troops and townspeople before the revolutionary war -
The Committees of Correspondence were provisional Patriot emergency governments established in response to British policy on the eve of the American Revolution throughout the Thirteen Colonies. -
340 chests of tea were ruined in Boston Harbor on the evening of December 16, 1773, in what is known as the Boston Tea Party. This political and commercial protest was a crucial event leading to the American Revolutionary War and, ultimately, American independence. -
The Continental Congress served as the authority through which the American colonial governments organized their opposition to British rule in the initial years of the American Revolution. -
It marked the start of the American War of Independence. Politically a mess for the British, it also persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of independence. -
They met to plan further responses if the British government did not repeal or modify the acts. The American Revolutionary War had started by that time. -
The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. -
It was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. American defeat of the superior British army lifted patriot morale, furthered the hope for independence war, and helped to secure the foreign support needed to win the war. -
The battle of Yorktown happened in Yorktown, Virginia, which entrapped a major British army on a peninsula which led to the British to surrender. -
Signed on September 3, 1783, this agreement between American colonies and Great Britain marked the conclusion of the American Revolution and acknowledged the United States as an existing country. -
The Constitution of the United States is the foundational law of the U.S. federal government and a significant document in Western history. The Constitution, the oldest written national constitution currently in effect, lays out the main branches of government, their responsibilities, and the fundamental rights of the people.