Road to Independence

By stu.lelandn1

  • First Continental Congress meets

    -All colonies but Georgia have representatives
    -voted to send a "statement of grievances"
    (a list of complaints)
    -Voted to Boycott all British Trade
    Patrick Henry
    -Virginia representative 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..."

  • Battle 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
    -American Victory

  • 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 Hessian Soldiers in response

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    -fought on Breed's Hill
    William Prescott
    "Don't Fire until you see the whites of their eyes"

    -British Victory
    (Americans ran out of ammunition)
    -The British learn that defeating the Americans would Not be easy.

  • Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental Troops

    • Realizes men are disorganized need discipline
    • Needs 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." - Thomas
      Paine, Common Sense

  • British Surrender Boston

    • Washington believes his army is ready weapons
      arrive
    • Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights
      overlooking Boston British retreat -- American Victory

  • Second Continental Congress meet again

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