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Washington was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America and served as the Nations first president.

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Grievances with the government led to the American Revolution, in which the colonies collaborated in forming the Continental Congress.

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An act of Parliament of Great Britain which became law on March 31, 1774.

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The French and Indian war pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France.

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Each committee got in touch with other towns and colonies. Its members shared ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them.

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Committees of Correspondence - American Revolution

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He was an American silversmith, and a patriot in the American Revolution.

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She was a writer in the Massachusetts colony, she wrote plays that accused British leaders of being greedy.

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Samuel Adams was a local leader, who believed that parliament could not tax colonists without their permission.

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1765 was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the Thirteen Colonies and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.

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Parliament once decided to punish Boston. In the spring of 1774 it passed the Coercive Acts. Colonists called these laws the Intolerable Acts.

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The Boston Tea Party was a political act by the sons of liberty in Boston, Massachusetts on December 16, 1733.

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On March 5, 1770 the Boston Massacre occurred. British army soldiers shot and killed 5 people while under harassment by locals.