What is the main conflict?

The main conflict in the novel, Johnny Tremain, is the ongoing battle between the Patriots and the English is America's fight for freedom.

“Friends! Brethren! Countrymen! That worst of Plagues, the detested tea shipped for this Port by the East India Company, is now arrived in the Harbour: the hour of destruction, of manly opposition to the machinations of Tyranny, stares you in the face.”