DECADES INFOGRAPHIC

Revolution

The American Revolution was the war in which Great Britain's 13 American colonies won their independence. The colonies became a new country, the United States.

American

11492 - 1783

1492

Discovery of the US

1492

1770

the 13 colonies

13 colonies on teh east coast of

17th

revolutionary war

Further conflicts between Patriots and British soldiers started the revolutionäry war. on 4th July 1776 the patriots declared their independence

1775

End of the war

The war didn´t stop until Britain accepted the United Staates of America an indipendent Staae in 1783

1783

The British acts

Sugar Act: A law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 due to need of money after the seven years war, raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a profit on the colonial market.

1764 - 1773

Christopher Columbes discovers America and the British beginn to explore and colonize America

1760

Stamp Act: A law, that mad the colonies buy paper from London with a special stamp, f ollowed in 1765

Tea Act: A law, that controlled tea trading in 1773

These Acts and many more taxes caused a lot of anger of the patriots(colonists) which lead to several protests including the patriots threwing off worth more than 10 million dollar tea from british ships.

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