The conflict that started the Revolutionary War was, in economic terms, the repressive taxation of the colonies by the English home-country, along with other perceived injustices. The conflict that served as the military spark of the War occurred in April of 1775 at Lexington, then at Concord, in Massachusetts, where colonial militia squared off with menacing British troops.
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The revolutionary war started in 1775 and ended in 1782.
Battle of Yorktown
Answerthe Revolutionary War started because the colonists had enough of the taxes that King George the third gave out. For example: the intolerable tax, tea tax, and the stamp act.
The two events that happened in Boston before the American Revolutionary War started were the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party.
The first battles in the Revolutionary War were the battles at Lexington and Concord. They took place on April 19, 1775. The Declaration of Independence was not passed until July 4, 1776, which is over a year after the start of the war.