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Slavery Decreasing
*African American slavery was decreasing in the North -
Boston Massacre
*1st person to die- Crispus Attucks
*British Redcoats shot at a crowd gathered outside the custons house. -
Second Continental Congress
*56 delegates continual congress gathered to disscuss American freedom.
*only Georgia was not represented -
Boston Tea Party
- Colonists dressed up as Mohawk Indians ans threw all of the tea off of a British ship.
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Intollerable Acts
*Spring of 1774
* Put taxes on tea -
"The Shot Heard Around the World"
*a shot was fired that killed 8 conlonists and 1 British Soldier was wounded.
*caused a fight to break out
*nobody know who fired the shot -
Battle at Lesxington and Concord
*Colonists succeded -
African Americans recieve freedom... uh kinda
*Brittish gave African Americans freedon if the joined the army
*This led to George Washington letting African Americans join the US army -
The Battle at Bunker Hill
*Colonel William Prescot led minutemen
*British commander Sir William Howe
*British lost the battle -
Colonel William Prescot
*led 1200 minutemen up Bunker Hill -
Richard Montgomery
*led one army from Fort Ticonderoga to Montreal
*he siezed the city, then moved toward Quebec -
Slavery Ends
*More than half a million African Americans living in the colonies. -
Common Sense is Written
*In this Thomas Paine tried to convince the colinists that they didnt owe loyalty to the king. -
Colonies Voted Independent
*continental congress voted for the 13 colonies to be independent. -
Declaration of Independence
*written by Thomas Jefferson
* committe to help edit the Declaration of Independece included, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman
*was written to the king -
Colonists started giving up
*this led Thomas Paine to write "The Crisis" -
New Plan For Victory
*General John Burgoyne came up with this new plan -
Women are Allowed in the War
*Martha Washington went to Valley Forge to help the sic k and wounded.
*Molley Pitcher took her husbands place loading and firing a cannon. -
British Surrender
*surrendered in Yorktown, Virginia -
Battle of Yorktown
*British Commander- Lord Charles Cornwallis
*George Washington- commander of US Colonies -
Treaty of Paris
*First country to make a treaty with the US
