the american revolutin
On April 19, local militiamen clashed with British soldiers in the Battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, marking the “shot heard round the world” that signified the start of the Revolutionary War
The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution which occurred in colonial North America between 1765 and 1783. The American in the Thirteen Colonies defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), gaining independence from the British Crown and establishing the United States of America, the first modern constitutional liberal democracy.
Date:22 March 1765 – 3 September 1783
Outcome
Independence of the United States of America from the British Empire
End of British colonial rule in the Thirteen Colonies
End of the First British Empire
Began the Age of Revolution
