Road to Independance

By stu.gaskille1@mishawaka.k12.in.us

  • First 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

  • 1,000s if Redcoats in Boston

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

  • Battles of Lexignton & Concord

    Battle of Lexington
    1st battle of the 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

  • Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

    Paul Revere rides to want the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming...the British are coming"

  • Second Continental Congress

    • Print SSSS
    • Set up post office
    • Created Continental led by George Washington
    • Sent olive branch asking king to protect their rights

  • 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

  • Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental Troops

    • Realizes men are disorganized and need discipline
    • Need weapons
    • Cannons

  • "Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine

    • "Every thing 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
    • Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots

  • British Surrender Boston

    • Washington believed his aren't us ready weapons arrive
    • Washington puts cannons of Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
    • British Retreat - American Victory

  • Second Continental Congress Meet Again

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