Road to Revaluation

By stu.heeter@mishawaka.k12.in.us

  • Continental Congress meets

    • all colonies but Georgia have representatives
    • voted to send " statement of grievances "
    • voted to Boycott all British Trade
    • Patrick Henry- VA rep .urged colonists to unite Britain

  • 1,000's of Redcoats in Boston

    • General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to boston with more on the way

  • Midnight ride of Paul Revere

    • Paul Revere rides to warn the sons of liberty in Lexington and concord that the " British are coming.. The British are coming

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    BATTLE OF LEXINGTON -
    - 1 battle of america revolutionary war
    -"shot heard the world " - Ralph Waldo Emerson
    - British Victory
    BATTLE OF CONCORD
    - americas stop the british and force them them to retreat back boston
    -america vistory

  • capture of fort Ticonderoga

    • bend edict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort
    • get all supplies in the fort including cannons
    • american victory

  • Second Continental Congress meet

    • Print $$$$$
    • Set up post office
    • Created Continental Army led by George Washington
    • sent olive branch asking king to protect their rights
      • king hires 30,000 Hessian Soldiers in response

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    • fought on Breed's Hill
    • " Don't Fire until you see the whites of their eyes " - William Prescott
    • British Victory ( Americans ran out of ammunition ) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy .

  • Washington arrives outskirts of Boston with Continental troops

    • Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
    • need weapons

  • " common sense " Published by thomas Paine

    • pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
    • " everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of slain , the weeping voice of nature cries, ' TIS TIME TO PART" - Thomas Paine , COMMON Sense

  • British Surrender Boston

    • washington beleves his army is ready weapins arrive
    • washington puts cannos on dorchester heieghts overlooking boston -british retreat - american vistory

  • Second Continental Congress meet again

    • Debate on declaring independence Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document

  • Second Continetal Congress votes for independece

    voted

  • The Declaration of Independence is signed

    • signed