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Boston Tea Party
The colonists were facing unfair taxes or Taxiation without representation espiacally on tea. Son on that night the colonists decided to dumt all the tea into the boston harbor. -
The begining of a long battle
the colonies were experiencing a lot of trouble because of un fair taxation, lack of representation in the British Parliament, and the restriction of colonial freedoms; even so, less than one- third of the colonists really wanted independence from Britan. Never the less, the First Continental Congress was meeting that October and was warning people to be prepared to fight if American liberties were not restored.Early next year the king declared the colony of Massachusetts to be in open rebellion -
The lanterns
The night before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the steeple of this Boston church glowed with the light of two lanterns. The lights were a signal to the patriots that British troops, known as "redcoats," were coming to search for weapons in Concors by secretly crossing the river to Charles Town. -
The Second Continental Congress Begins.
A few weeks after the outbreak of war, representatives ffrom the thirteen colonies formed the Second Continental Congress that would serve as an emergency government throughout the war. -
The Declaration of Independence
In 1776, Thomas jefferson and other members of a special congressional committee were busy at work writing the Decleration of Independence, America's most famous historical document. They wrote that all men are born with certain god- given rights and are created equal -
Crossing the Deleware
On Christmas night in 1776, Washington and his men went on the offensive. They crossed the icy Delaware River and slipped back into New Jersey. -
After Valley Forge
The summer after Valley Forge, the British under took a major military campagin in the southern state where a lot of people were against independence. So the British abandoned Philadelphia and soon warfare ended in the North. Late in December of 1778, the king's force seized Savannah, Georgia and soon took control of the whole state. -
The Last Battle of the Revolutionary War
A large force of British troops led by General Cornwallis had reached Yorktown, Virginia, old tobacco port near the Chesapeake Bay, where the last battle of the Revolutionary War was to be fought. -
THE BRITISH SURRUNDER!!!!!!
The shooting finally stopped and then the British surrendered. -
The treaty of Paris
When a peace treaty was approved in which Great Britan formally recognized the independence of the United States of America.
