First American Revolt (Britain Keeps America)

First American Revolt (1775-76) was a rebellion attempted by angry colonists from 8 colonies to gain independence from Great Britain.

The war was a result of the political First American Revolution. The Stamp Act of 1765 was declared by colonists as unconstitutional, though the British Parliament insisted it had a right to tax colonies. The colonies then declared that because they had the rights of an Englishman, taxation without representation was illegal. An American boycott of British taxed tea led to the Boston Tea Party in 1773. The British responded by ending self-government in Massachusetts and putting it under control of the British Army with General Thomas Gage as governor. This and other laws known as the "Intolerable Acts" led to the threat of an American rebellion. The British, hoping to keep her colonies, did not pass the Quebec Act of 1774 and gave the colonies representation in British Parliament. This lessened the anger of the colonies, but with the Battle of Lexington and Concord the revolt had begun.

Following the Siege of Boston the Continental Army under George Washington head to New York to defend it from the British. They arrived their battered and tired, which allowed the British to defeat them in battle. With the capture of George Washington led to the end of the revolt. American ideas of independence still continued, and would to the Ohio War of 1801 and the Second American Revolt of 1807.