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King George III was upset by the colonists preaching “No taxation without representation” and wanted to force them to behave so he issued The Stamp Act. He put a tax on all paper and stamps in the 13 colonies.
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The British soldiers and the colonists got into a argument on the streets of Boston, Massachusetts where 200 colonists gathered to witness an agreement array of shots being fired by the British soldiers leaving 5 colonists dead.
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This was an event where many American colonists dumped a total of 342 chests of tea into the sea in a way to protest the British tea tax
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He intolerable acts were a series of acts meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston tea party
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The Declaration of Independence was a letter written to Great Britain stating how they would no longer have control over the 13 colonies. This was the document that started the American Revolution
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This is the battle where the British surrender in Yorktown, Virginia when the Americans corner General Cornwallis’s army.
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The official treaty ending the war between the American colonies and Great Britain.
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The signing of America’s founding and most important documents. This document set out the outline for this country and I’d still referred to today.
