Black Contributors to the Cause
The American Revolution (1765-1783) was a colonial rebellion which began as a protest against British taxation and governance and became a war
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of independence in which the Thirteen Colonies broke from British rule to form the United States of America. The revolution culminated in the American Revolutionary War, which was launched on April 19, 1775, in the Battles of Lexington and Concord and ended with the eventual victory at Yorktown in 1781, culminating in the Treaty of Paris in 1783, which recognized American independence.













