Road to Revolution 5.3 & 5.4

By bennyrenny
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    sugar act
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    stamp act
  • boston massacre

    boston massacre

    colonists and british troops
    march 5 1770 soldier strikes colonist.
    crowd gathers and hassles soldiers, throwing snowballs and shouting insults
    more troops arrive colonists get more and more angry
    fire if you dare
  • boston tea party

    boston tea party

    members of sons of liberty dump over 30 chest of tea into the harbor
    caused problems for loyalists
  • first continental congress

    first continental congress

    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 British Colonies,They agreed to boycott British goods at first, if Parliment would not repeal the Intolerable Acts.
  • 1,000 redcoats in boston

    1,000 redcoats in boston

    General Gage brings thousands of British
    soldiers to Boston with more on the way.
  • Midnight ride of Paul Revere

    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.."
  • Battles of Lexington & Concord

    Battles of Lexington & Concord

    • Battle of Lexington -
    – 1
    st battle of American Revolutionary War
    – “shot heard round the world” -Ralph Waldo
    Emerson
    – BRITISH Victory
    • Battle of Concord -
    – Americans Stop British and force them to retreat
    back to Boston
    – AMERICAN Victory
  • Second continental congress meets

    Second continental congress meets

    The Second Continental Congress met on May 10, 1775. The delegates included some of the greatest leaders in the colonies. Among them were John and Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, and George Washington—all delegates to the First Continental Congress. Several new delegates came as well.
  • Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

    Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

    • Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
    • Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
    • AMERICAN Victory
  • battle of bunker hill

    battle of bunker hill

    • fought on Breed’s Hill Map
    • “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 on outskirts of boston with continental troops

    washington arrives on outskirts of boston with continental troops

    realizes men are disorganized and need discipline. need weapons
  • common sense published by thomas pain

    common sense published by thomas pain

    pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
    everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART'-thomas paine,Common sense
  • British surrender Boston

    British surrender Boston

    washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
    washington puts cannons on dorchester heights overlookin boston
  • declaration of independence is signed

    declaration of independence is signed

    the declaration of indpendence is signed finally.