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American Revolution - C.Theodore Per.6
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Samuel and John Arrested
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Samuel Adams an John Adams
The king declared the colony of massachusetts to be in open rebellion. He commanded that Boston's main patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock be arrested for treason. A short time later, soldiers were ordered to seize American weapons and gunpowder being stored in the town of Concord, Massachusetts. -
Redcoats
The night before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the steeple of this Boston church glowed with the light of two lanterns. The lights were a signal to the patriots the British troops, known as "redcoats", were coming to search for weapons in Concord by secretly crossing the river to Charles Town.Paul Revere, raced off to warn people along the way. -
Declaration of Independence presented to the congress
The United States of America was born here, within the walls of the state house of the colony of Pennsylvania, on the fourth of July 1776, when the declaration of Independence was presented to the congress. This room was unusually quiet that day as men stepped forward to sign their names to the document. All of them realized the great importance, and danger, of what they were doing. -
Writing the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson and other members of a special congressional committee were busy at work writing the Declaration of Independence. America's most famous historical document. They describe all the ways that Britain had taken away the rights of the colonists and they declare that America must be independent to form a new, democratic, nation. -
Washington and His Men
On Christmas night in 1776, Washington and his men went on the offensive. They crossed the icy Delaware river and slipped back into New Jersey. With the elementof surprise on their side, American forces went on to win important battles at Trenton and nearby Pronceton. -
Valley Forge Encampment
Two months after the fighting at Saratoga, Washington began to set up his Winter encampment here at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Soldiers built rows of log cabins. In a short time the second largest city in the United States, with a population of twelve thousand men. -
Abandoning Philidelphia
The summer after Valley Forge, the British under took a major military campaign in the southern state where a lot of people were against independence. So the British abandoned Philidelphia and soon warfare ended in the North. Late in December of of 1778, the king's force seized Savannah, Georgia and soon took control of the whole state. -
The United States Suffered
The year of 1779, as well as most of 1780, were very bad for the United States. We suffered a string of bitter defeats in the South. Eventually the Americans started to win again, but they could not stop the British from inveding Virginia. -
Last Battle of The Revolutionary War
By October of 1781, a large force of British troops led British General Cornwallis had reached Yorktown, Virginia. It was an old tobacco port near the Chesapeake Bay. Where the last battle of the Revolutionary War was to be fought. -
Peace Treaty
The battlefield here at Yorktown witnessed the last conflict of the Revolutionary War. The war did not officially end until 1783. When a peace treaty was approved in which Great Britain formally recognized the independence of the United States of America.
