WAR OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CAUSES RESPONSIBLE FOR WAR Poor administration of colonies economic exploitation of colonies Enterprising nature of the people of colonies End of the French threat and hope of assistance from France

continued Temperamental difference between the Britishers and the residents of colonies Stampt act of 1765 Townshend's duties and Boston massacre Lord north's tea act and Boston's tea party Congress of Philadelphia, 1774

Major events of the war of American independence War of Lexington, 1775 Battle of the heights of Abraham, 1775 George Washington became commander in chief in 1775 Deceleration of independence Battle of Saratoga ,1776 Campaigns of 1780-83 and victory of Yorktown