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Road to Independence

By baseballboy2012

  • First Continental Congress meets

    1. all colonies but Georgia have representatives

  • 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..."

  • 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 $$$$
    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

    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 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" - 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 - AMERICAN victory

  • Second Continental Congress meets again

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

  • The Declaration of independence is signed!