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Rice was a widespread and important British crop which played a crucial role in the establishment of slavery along. Indigo was a highly-valued crop in British colonial Florida. One of the oldest and most durable of dyes

The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: the royal French forces and the various Indigenous forces allied with them. British and European historians use the term the Seven Years' War, as do many Canadians.

The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764.[1] The preamble to the act stated:

The British and the Cherokee had been allies at the start of the war, but each party had suspected the other of betrayals. Tensions between British-American settlers and the Cherokee increased during

The origins of the War of Regulation stem from a drastic population increase in North and South Carolina during the 1760s, followed by immigration from the large eastern cities to the rural west. The inland section of the colonies had once been predominately composed of planters with an agricultural economy. Merchants and lawyers began to move west, upsetting the social and political structure

A group of American patriots that originated in the pre-independence North American British colonies. The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to take to the streets against the taxes by the British government.

The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.

The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive battle between the Patriot and Loyalist

The war that the American colonists and Great Britain fought. The Americans won, and we are now free from Britain.

After winning its independence from Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, the new country situated on the eastern seaboard of North America needed to fashion some form of governmental system

The document that the United States sent to Great Britain to declare our independence

Whereas the British Parliament, claiming of late years a right to bind the North American colonies by law in all cases whatsoever, have enacted statutes for raising a revenue in those colonies and disposing of such revenue as they thought proper, without the consent and against the will of the colonists

This battle was a failure to the Americans but a great victory for British. Even though the colonists outnumbered them 2-1.

This small battle had an effect disproportionate to its size. As seemed to be the case throughout the war British victories achieved little in the long term while every American victory gave encouragement to the colonies.

The Battle of Eutaw Springs was one of the hardest fought and bloodiest battles of the Revolution and proved to be the last major engagement of the war

The Electoral Commissions' decision could not be overturned unless both the Democratic controlled House of Representatives and the Republican controlled Senate agreed.