Road to Revolution 5.3 & 5.4

By xlitteral

  • 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

  • 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.."

  • Battles of Lexington & Concord

    Battle of Lexington
    -1st 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

  • Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

    -Benedict Arnold & 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 Hessians 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 on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops

    -Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
    -Need weapons

  • "Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine

    • Pamphlry 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

    -Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
    -Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
    -British retreats - AMERICAN Victory

  • Second Continental Congress meet again

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

  • Second Continental Congress voted for Independence

  • The Declaration of Independence is sighed!