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Introduction
As the leaves were just changing color in October the colonies were experiencing a lot of trouble because of unfair taxation, lack of representation in the British Parliament, and the restriction of colonial freedoms; less than one-third of the colonists really wanted independence from Britan. The First Continental Congress was meeting that October and was warning people to be prepared to fight if the American liberties were not restored. -
Lexington and Concord
This began the Outbreak of the Revolutionary War. The night right before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the steeple of this Boston church glowed with the light of two lanterns. This signaled to the patriots that British Troops AKA. Redcoats were cominig to search for weapons in concord by crossing the river to Charles Town. -
The second Continental Congress begins
A few weeks after the outbreak of the war representatives form the thirteen colonies formed the secong Continental Congress that would serve as an emergency government throughout the war. While it was getting underway at the statehouse in Philadelphia the war spread as American fighters in the colony of New York captured For Ticonderog, at the same time armed militias took up positions in the hills around Boston. -
The Declaration Of Independence
Thomas Jefferson and other members of a special congressional committee were busy at work writing the Declaration of Independence, America's most famous historical document. They wrote that all men are born with certain god-given rights and are created equal. -
War in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
Many Americans were just learning that independence had been declared when war borke out in New York and spread to New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It started when British soldiers and hired German troops called Hessians assembled to attack New York, City. After a lot of fighting, British forces took control of the city and chased Washington's army across New Jersey into Pennsylvania. Near Christmas night in 1776, Washington and his men went on the offensice. They crossed the icy Delaware River..... -
Slavery and the new nation
Among the signers of the Declaration of Independence, slavery was a very controversial issue; for while some hated slavery, others were slave owners, still others were slave ownders who also hated slavery. Thomas Jefferson, for example, had called slavery "a cruel war agianst human nature." -
War of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania continued.
American Foces went on to win inportant battles at Trenton and nearby Princeton. The next summer,a huge enemy force invaded New York from Canada. At the same time as the invasion a second British Force attacked from the opposite direction and defeated Washington's Army in Pennsylvania in a battle at Brandywine Creek. After all of that British took Americas capital city Philadelphia. -
Encampment At Valley Forge, Pennsylvania 1777-1778
Two months following the fight, Washington began to set up his winter encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, about a day ride from Philadelphia. Soldiers began to buil rows of log cabins in a short time the Encampment became the seond largest city in the United States, with a poplulation of twelve thousand men. Eventhough the cabins were very crowded inside, they provided shelter from the snow and wind. But Washington's men still suffered. -
The Campaign In The Southern States 1778-1781
In 1778, the summer after Valley Forge, the British under took a major military campaign in the southern states where a lot of people were agianst independence. So the British abandoned Philadelphia and soon warfare ended in the North. Later in December of 1778, the king's forced seized Savannah, Georgia and soon took control of the whole state. -
Yorktown, Virginia: The Last Battle Of The Revolutionary War
The Battlefield here at Yorktown witnessed the last big conflict of the Revolutionary War, but the war didnt really end untill 1783, when a peace treaty was approved in which Great Britian formally recognized the independence of the United States Of American
