Hi im stan!, i'm going to show you the american revolution.
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791.
gaining independence from the British Crown and establishing the United States as the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of liberal democracy.
The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
The Stamp Act
To recoup some of the massive debt left over from the war with France,
Parliament passed laws such as the Stamp Act, which for the first time taxed a wide range of transactions in the colonies.
Here are 3 events that were a main cause in the revolution.
The Sugar Act
the new Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon,
retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum.
the Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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