Road to revolution 5.3 & 5.4

By Malcolm Hans

  • Continental Congress meets

    All colonies but Georgia have representatives
    Voted to send a "statement of grievances"
    Voted to boycott all british trade
    Patrick Henry - VA rep. urged colonists to unite against britain

  • 1000s of Redcoats in Boston

    General Gage brings thousands of british soldiers to Boston with more no the way

  • Battle of lexington and concord

    Battle of lexington
    First battle of american revolutionary war
    "shot heard around the world -Ralph Waldo Emerson
    British Victory
    Battle of concord
    Americans stop british and force them to retrear back to boston
    American victory

  • Capture of for Ticonderoga

    Benedicy arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort
    Get all upplies in the fort including cannons
    American victory

  • Second Continental Congress Meet

    Print their own money
    Set up post office
    Created the continental army led by George Washington
    Sent olive branch asking king to protect they rights
    -King hires 30000 Hessians Soldiers in response

  • Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops

    Realiszes men are disorganized and need discipline
    Need weapons

  • "Common sense" Published by Thomas Paine

    pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
    "Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ‘TIS TIME TO PART."

  • British surrender boston

    Washington believed his army was read and weapons arrive.
    Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights looking over boston
    British retreat - American victory

  • Second Continental congress meet again

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

  • Second Continental Congress votes for Independence

    All 13 colonies vote YES for independence

  • The Declaration of Independence was signed

    firework