Answer:
1. French and Indian war
The french and Indian war took place between the American colonies and new France. This war lasted 1754 to 1763. British troops not only helped the colonists to fight the war, but were stationed in the colonies for protection after the war. The British parliament decided to tax the American colonies to help pay taxes for the troops
2. Intolerable Acts
The British decided that the colonies needed to be punished for the Boston tea party. They issued a number of new laws that the colonists called the Intolerable Acts.
3. The war begins
In 1775, British Soldiers in Massachusetts were ordered to disarm the American rebels and to arrest their leaders. The revolutionary war began on April 19,1775 when fighting broke out between the two sides at the batles of Lexington and Concord.
