road to revolution timeline

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  • 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 and concord

    battle of Lexington
    1st battle of american revolutionary war
    shot heard round the world Ralph waldo Emerson
    British victory
    battles of concord Americans stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston american victory

  • capture of fort ticonderoga

    Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort
    get all supplies in the fort including cannons
    American victory

  • Second Continental Congress Meet

    Print money
    set up office
    created continental army led by George Washington
    Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
    King hired 30,000 Hessian's Soldiers in response

  • Battle Of Bunker Hill

    Fought of breeds hill
    don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes-William Prescott
    British victory Americans tan out of ammunition British learn defeating Americans would not be easy

  • 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 Thomas Paine, Common Sense

  • British Surrender Boston

    Washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
    Washington puts cannons on Dorchester heights overlooking Boston
    BRITISH RETREAT AMERICA VICTORY

  • Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops

    Realizes men are disorganized and need discipline
    Need weapons

  • 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 votes YES on declaring independence

  • The Declaration of Independence is signed!

    They celebrate the 4th of July

  • 1,000's of redcoats in boston

    general Gage beings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way

  • first continetal congress

    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British Colonies, that met to deal with the Intolerable Acts. Georgia was the only colony that did not send a representative to the Congress. They agreed to boycott British goods at first, if Parliment would not repeal the Intolerable Acts.

  • Notes

    great britain needed money to pay for french and indian war and the cost of still defending the colonist from indian attacks
    indirect tax out of sight = out of mind duties on molasses and sugar