During the following period protests by colonists also known as Patriots continued to increase rapidly. With the Boston Tea Party in 1773 Patriots demolished a load of taxed tea from the East India Company. The British returned what they believed to be the belligerence of the colonists by decreeing laws known as The Coercive Acts on Massachusetts in 1774 until the tea had been paid for. In 1774 the Patriots set up their own form of government to better their independence effort against Great Britain while other colonists known as Loyalists wanted to remain subjects of the British Crown. Slaves and free blacks fought for the Continental’s and for the British during the Revolutionary War. At Monmouth, African Americans faced each other; this wasn’t an important battle
During the following period protests by colonists also known as Patriots continued to increase rapidly. With the Boston Tea Party in 1773 Patriots demolished a load of taxed tea from the East India Company. The British returned what they believed to be the belligerence of the colonists by decreeing laws known as The Coercive Acts on Massachusetts in 1774 until the tea had been paid for. In 1774 the Patriots set up their own form of government to better their independence effort against Great Britain while other colonists known as Loyalists wanted to remain subjects of the British Crown. Slaves and free blacks fought for the Continental’s and for the British during the Revolutionary War. At Monmouth, African Americans faced each other; this wasn’t an important battle