British leaders also felt the need to tighten control over their empire. To be sure, laws regulating imperial trade and navigation had been on the books for ...

American revolutionaries viewed English actions from 1767-1772 with suspicion. They read in British policy a systematic conspiracy against their liberties.

When the colonies became a drain on British resources, Britain grew weary of the struggle to maintain empire and withdrew.

A series of British political missteps, outright blunders, and heavy-handedness stirred the colonists to become patriots.

When the Revolutionary War began in 1775, the colonies chose Washington to be the commander in chief of the Continental Army to fight the. British. The war was ...

Colonization efforts began in the late 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in the North. The first of the permanent ... Background: early exploration... · List of colonies

5 мая 2020 г. · The British viewed the American Revolutionary War. From anxiety to a foreboding sense of the conflict being a civil war, to some admiration, and to a hardened ...

Rivalry in Europe, between the French and the British in particular, often influenced the course of events in their North American colonies.

In 1775, political and economic concerns led the inhabitants of Britain's 13 American colonies to rebel in the War of Independence (1775-83).

5 дней назад · The American Revolution was an insurrection carried out by 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies that began in 1775 and ended with a ... American colonies · The Native American response · Salutary neglect