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The Revolution was the product of 40 years of abuses by the British authorities that many colonists regarded as a threat to their liberty and property. The Revolution resulted from the way the colonists interpreted events. n October 1781, the war virtually came to an end when General Cornwallis was surrounded and forced to surrender the British position at Yorktown, Virginia. Two years later, the Treaty of Paris made it official: America was independent.

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Writs of assistance played an important role in the increasing tensions that led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States of America. In 1760, Great Britain began to enforce some of the provisions of the Navigation Acts by granting customs officers these writs. In response, the British officials in the colonies called for a crackdown on smuggling. Writs of assistance were documents which served as a search warrant, allowing officials to enter any ship or building that they suspected for any reason might hold smuggled goods.

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The Sons of Liberty was an organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. They played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765.  As a means to protest the passing of the Stamp Act of 1765. Their motto was, “No taxation without representation.”

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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. The army defeated 700 British soldiers.

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This was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 in which they met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. On December 1, 1774, the Continental Association was created to boycott all contact with British goods. By reversing the economic sanctions placed on the colonists, the delegates hoped Britain would repeal its Intolerable Acts.

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Intolerable Acts were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 that were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.
There were four punishing Intolerable Acts:

The first of the Intolerable Act closed the port of Boston so tightly that the colonists could not bring hay from Charlestown to give to their starving horses

The second of the Intolerable Act put an end to the constitution of Massachusetts: only one town meeting was permitted a year in Massachusetts, unless approved by the governor. Town officials would no longer be elected, they were to be be appointed by the royal governor. The executive council would no longer be elected, but appointed by the King.

The third of the Intolerable Act gave the power for all trials in the colony to be sent to Great Britain and heard under a British judge

The fourth of the punishing Intolerable Acts compelled the colonists to feed and shelter the soldiers employed to punish them.

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On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.

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The Tea Act was passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard.

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The Boston Massacre was basically a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770 between the 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 citizenry. Conflicts between the British and the colonists had been on the rise because the British government had been trying to increase control over the colonies and raise taxes at the same time. The event in Boston helped to unite the colonies against Britain.

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The Townshend Act was passed by the British Parliament that were a series of four acts

The Suspending Act: prohibited the New York Assembly from conducting any further business until it complied with the financial requirements of the Quartering Act for the expenses of British troops stationed there.

Townshend Duties: imposed of direct revenue duties. Duties aimed at regulating trade but at putting money into the British treasury.

The Third Act: established strict and often arbitrary machinery of customs collection in the American colonies, including additional officers, searchers, spies, coast guard vessels, search warrants, writs of assistance, and a Board of Customs Commissioners at Boston, all to be financed out of customs revenues.

Fourth Act: lifted commercial duties on tea, allowing it to be exported to the colonies free of all British taxes.

The Townshend Acts were met with resistance in the colonies prompting the occupation of Boston by British troops in 1768 which eventually resulted in the Boston Massacre of 1770.

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This was a declaration was passed by the British Parliament to ensure the power to legislate for the colonies. This accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. This declaration  stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act 1765. The Quartering Act was repealed in 1770 when Parliament realized that the costs of enforcing it outweighed its benefits.

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Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held on October 7-25, 1765 in New York City. This was the known as the first congress meeting which consisted of representatives from  some of the British colonies. The meeting was significant being that representatives from nine colonies put aside their local differences and joined together to discuss the Stamp Act. The members of the Stamp Act Congress believed that the Stamp Act was a deliberate attempt to undermine the commercial strength and the independence of America.

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This act was passed by British Parliament on March 22, 1765. This act was a leading cause to an uproar in the colonies over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolution. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists which required them to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used. This also went for:

Ships paper

Legal documents

Licenses

Other publications

Newspapers

Most Americans called for a boycott of British goods, and some decided to organize attacks on the customhouses and homes of tax collectors.

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In 1765, Parliament passes the Quartering Act which outlined the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American Colonies. The colonists eventually disputed the legality of the act because it seemed to violate what the Bill of Rights stood for. British officers that fought in the French and Indian War found it hard to persuade colonists to pay for quartering. However, Boston merchants were angry about this and helped organize a boycott of goods. In 1768, Philadelphia and New York joined the boycott. As the boycott spread, harassment of customs commissioners grew, especially in Boston.

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Parliament passed the Sugar Act  on April 5, 1764. The Act was under the Molasses Act in which colonial merchants were required to pay tax of six pence per gallon on their importation of foreign molasses. This eventually hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar. The Sugar Act however ,reduced the tax on molasses from sixpence to three pence. The Sugar Act of 1764 was passed to replace the Molasses Act of 1733,by reducing the colonial tax by a half.

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The Proclamation was established to avoid further conflicts with the Native Americans. This banned all settlement west of the Appalachians. The ban prohibited private citizens and colonial governments to buy land from or make any agreements with natives; the empire would conduct all official relations. Although the proclamation was introduced as a temporary measure, its economic benefits for Britain prompted ministers to keep it until the day before the Revolution.