Ch.22 Revolution!
Discontent in the British Colonies
After the Seven Years’ War, British Parliament and the king’s ministers wrote a series of new tax laws.
The Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, etc.
1773.12.16 Boston Tea Party
The American Revolution
1775.04.18 A troop of British soldiers marched out of Boston under cover of dark.
1776.07.04 The Continental Congress approved Thomas Jefferson’s manifest, called the Declaration of Independence.
1783. Great Britain signed an agreement giving the colonies their independence. The American were no longer colonists. Now they were citizens of a new country!
