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King George III came to the throne

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The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.

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The Sugar Act was passed in 1764 and the Stamp Act was passed a year later in 1765. Both were designed to raise revenue for the British. ... The Sugar Act was designed to regulate commerce and trade especially in the New England region. The Stamp Act was the first direct tax on domestically produced and consumed items.

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Britain enforced the Navigation Act of the 1600s which forced the Colonists to buy or sell goods only from Britain even if they could get better prices from elsewhere.

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Tensions began to grow, and in Boston in February 1770 a patriot mob attacked a British loyalist, who fired a gun at them, killing a boy. In the ensuing days brawls between colonists and British soldiers eventually culminated in the Boston Massacre.

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In an effort to save the troubled enterprise, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies.

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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

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The Intolerable Acts (passed/Royal assent March 31–June 22, 1774) were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.

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The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. ... Delegates discussed boycotting British goods to establish the rights of Americans and planned for a Second Continental Congress.

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Paul Revere warned the Colonists about the British coming to destroy there weapons. Paul was yelling "The British are coming! The British are coming!"

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The Second Continental Congress was the representative government that brought the American colonies together as they prepared for their revolution. ... In response to the Intolerable Acts, the colonies agree to form a delegation of representatives from each colony, called the First Continental Congress.

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The period ended in 1789 following the ratification of the United States Constitution, which established a new, more powerful, national government. The Articles of Confederation established a loose confederation of states with a weak federal government.

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The Declaration of Independence states three basic ideas 1 God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness 2 the main business of government is to protect these rights 3 if a government tries to withhold these rights, the people are free to revolt and to set up a

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Siege of Yorktown, (September 28–October 19, 1781), joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution.