The British government responded with overwhelming force to events in North America in an attempt to re-establish military dominance and control over the colonies, which fought back ferociously, leading to the American Revolutionary War.
The American Revolutionary War was not something that happened from one day to the other. It was instead the slow building-up of tension between the British and the American colonies due to events following the French and Indian war. Most of the events that lead to the American Revolution were caused by the British's need for economic recovery following the war. The British imposed many acts that taxed a variety of goods and services, such acts include:
and a few others. All of these were met with fierce opposition from the American colonists and would gradually draw increasingly violent responses. Following these decisions from the British, more violent altercations took place. The Boston massacre was the breaking point in which altercations took a permanently violent turn.
After this, the British scrambled to regain dominance over the colonies, attempting to extinguish the sparks of revolution, the events of Lexington and Concord, and the British attacks on coastal towns took place. The Colonial response to this was to band together and fight for independence, beginning the American Revolutionary War.
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