What war did the Americans fight to win independence from Britain?

Why this is the answer

The war was the American Revolution, also called the Revolutionary War or the War for Independence. It began in 1775, when colonists in Massachusetts started fighting British troops, and during it the colonies declared their independence in 1776. The fighting ended with the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781, and the war formally ended in 1783 with a treaty in which Great Britain accepted that the United States was an independent country. Any of the three names is accepted. Memory hook: 1775 to 1783, from Massachusetts to Yorktown.