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Description: The Quartering Act was a British parliamentary provision in American colonial history, requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages. This act was passed in response to increased empire defense costs following the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War. The Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids it in peacetime. The act was resented in New York, where the largest number of reserves were quartered. The Act was allowed to expire in 1770 after considerable tumult.

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Description: The Boston Massacre was the product of unrest in Boston stirred by colonists against the Townshend Acts, particularly that imposing duties on items like lead, glass, paper, paint, and tea. On March 5, 1770, a crowd of people confronted eight British soldiers, and the soldiers fired their muskets at them, killing five colonists. On another occasion, patriot mob attacked a British loyalist and a boy got killed, which escalated the tensions. The whole incident and the trials of the British soldiers, none of whom received a prison sentence, helped to this unpopularity of the British regime in colonial North America and contributed to the American Revolution. Media significantly covered trials of the British soldiers and great outrage they drew.

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Description: The Sugar Act was a British legislation in U.S. colonial history aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and providing increased revenues to fund the British Empire after the French and Indian War. It provided for strong customs enforcement of duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources. Despite American protests against the Molasses Act, the government of Prime Minister George Grenville placed a three-penny duty on foreign molasses, giving a virtual monopoly of the American market to British West Indies sugarcane planters. The Sugar Act also hampered the earlier clandestine trade in foreign sugar and much colonial maritime commerce.

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Description: The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting of representatives of nine American colonies held in New York City. It was purposed to frame resolutions and petition the king of England and the British Parliament for the repeal of the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was the first "internal" tax levied directly on the colonies by Parliament, striking at the very vital points of colonial economic operations and affecting transactions in trade. For these reasons, the colonies objected to the Act through the establishment of the Continental Congress; this led to the American Revolution. It issued a Declaration of Rights and Grievances stating that the Stamp Act infringed on the right to be only taxed by assent from elected representatives. In 1766, repeal was passed but with Parliament passing the Declaratory Act, which pronounced Parliament's power to bind or legislate the colonies.

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Description: The Continental Congress was the convention of delegates during the American Revolution that represented the colony-states which later became the United States. It met in 1774 and 1775-81, designated as the First and Second Continental Congress. The British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Acts, specifically the closure of Boston, had divided the colonies with much resentment. It coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution.

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Description: The Townshend Acts were four acts passed by the British Parliament as a way of claiming authority over the colonies in 17th-century North America. The acts were named after Charles Townshend, who represented the motive for their passing as a means to suspend the New York Assembly and to collect revenue duties. The Suspending Act banned the assembly from conducting any business until it complied with financial requirements for British troops stationed there. The Townshend duties, otherwise known as the Revenue Act, imposed direct revenue duties on items such as lead, glass, paper, paint, and tea.

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Description: The Boston Tea Party was an English East India Company protest and a tax on tea. On December 16, 1773, American Patriots masquerading as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of tea from British boats into Boston Harbor. The Townshend Acts of 1767 had stirred colonial protests and defiance, but were repealed in 1770. Next came a Parliamentary act in 1773 to assist the financially troubled East India Company by giving it a monopoly on the tea exported to the colonies; an exemption on the export tax; and a refund on duties owed on surplus quantities of tea. This led to the conservative colonial merchants allying with the radicals under the leader-ship of Samuel Adams and his Sons of Liberty.

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The American Revolution started on April 19, 1775, at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. British regulars under the command of General Thomas Gage were ordered to capture military stores of colonists at Concord. A British force of 700 men met an assemblage of local minutemen and others on Lexington Green; colonist communication lines had warned the group about the raid. If they didn't warn them, they most likely would have died.

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The Battle of Saratoga happened in 1777. This battle was considered the turning point of the war for the Continental Army. After this battle, the American Colonies would go on to win war after war. This battle also helped Ben Franklin convince the French King to start helping the U.S. colonies with the war. The French King helped us with supplies, military, and other needed things.

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All thirteen colonies sent representatives to Philadelphia in 1775. During this meeting, the members decided to select George Washington as Commander in Chief for the Continental Army. George Washington was the perfect choice for this spot because of his dedication and leadership. The delegates debated issues drafted the Olive Branch Petition and sent it to King George. King George Received it and refused to hear the petition.

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The Battle of Yorktown was a combined Franco-American operation in which a British army, under Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis, driven into a defensive position within the fortified seaport of Yorktown on the Virginia Peninsula, was forced to surrender. The outcome marked a conclusive end to military operations in the American Revolution, when General Lord Cornwallis, the British commander of the southern theater, took his army to Petersburg, Virginia. With 7,500 men, Cornwallis faced 4,500 American troops. The French played a huge part in helping us finish the war with all the reinforcements, medicine, and other necessities. This would finish up the Revolutionary War.

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The Advantages of the British Army are they were powerful and a superior Army. They were well trained with plenty of experience. They were also well equipped with supplies. The disadvantages were the people fighting for them started hating the war. This disadvantage made it really hard for the British to win the war.

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The advantages for the colonists were that they fought a defensive battle, which meant that the British were always the ones rushing them, and they were prepared. They used hit-and-run tactics which was a very useful strategy in this war. They fought a war of attrtition which meant they would poke at the British until they got them in a bad spot. They also had a strong leader in George Washington who wanted to win more than anyone. These advantages would help the colonists win the war.