You have to pay taxes for everything now even tea and postage !
I'm not paying taxes till we have representation.
Shot round the World
We are not paying taxes !!!!
In 1754 the entire east coast was established as the 13 British colonies, but the French wanted to start their own colonies too and soon started fighting over territory along with the Indians and Colonists. After the 7 year-long war the Colonist and British won, Britain went into debt after the war and started a new law that taxed the colonists called The Stamp Act.
France Alliance
Let's fight against the british ! yay!
The British government was taxing the Colonist on unreasonable things such as tea and postage. The colonists had enough and refused to pay taxes without representation in the British Parliament which caused the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Then they made the First Continental Congress discussd the crisis in the colonies and the crisis exploded into war .
Battle of Yorktown
The British were furious and started gathering troops against the colonists and Paul Revere heard about this and warned the colonists that "The Red Coats are coming". On April 19, 1775 the colonist's first attack on the British happened in Lexington which is known as "Shot Around The World".
A New Constitution
No more fighting!
After the Americans beat the British at the Battle of Saratoga, The French noticed their victory and wanted to fight with the Colonists against Britain in order to get revenge on Britain. The French brought trained soldiers, warships, and guns for the colonists to fight against the British.
Yorktown in Virginia was one of the last major battles of the American Revolution, The Americans and French surrounded the British troops and slowly closed in on them. On October 19, 1781, the British Army surrendered to George Washington.
After surrendering Britain, America, and the French signed the Treaty Of Paris that ended the war and was the independence of the United States of America from Britain. The Americans created a new constitution that guarantee natural rights such as the Bill of Rights which included life, liberty, property, and also another law that freely elected governments.
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