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Second Continental Congress
Date: May, 1775
Location: Philadelphia
Significance: Brought about point of no return, S.C.C wanted Declaration of Independence.
Result: Men hosting the S.C.C were wanted for treason.
Effect on War: True start of people rallying together for Declaration Of Independence and to fight British after olive Branch Petition failed. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Date: June 17, 1775
Location: Breed’s Hill
Significance: Morale booster for American Colonists.
Result: British saw war would be long and costly, and British won.
Effect on War: British gained control of Breed’s Hill and Charlestown Peninsula. -
Declaration of Independence
Date: July 4th, 1776 (Official Adoption), actually signed on July 2nd, 1776
Location: Philadelphia
Significance:Formal document stating Colonies independent from Britain rule.
Result:Colonies and British now officially at war, Britain no longer controls colonies.
Effect on War:All colonies agreed on the Declaration and they now formed together to fight the British. -
Battle of Saratoga
Date: October 17, 1777
Significance: It was a big American victory because the British surrendered a huge army and failed to sever New York from New England
Result: led to French contribution with US. Turning point of the American Revolution as it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support
Effect on War: It lifted American spirits, ended the British threat in New England, and showed the French that the Americans had the potential to beat their enemy.
Location: Saratoga, New York -
Battle of Yorktown
Date: October 6-20, 1781
Significance: The significance of the conflict was that General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown.
Result: The British surrender at the Battle of Yorktown marking the end to the American Revolutionary War.
Effect on War: The war had finally come to an end, although there continued to be skirmishes in the South between Loyalists after America’s separation.
Location: Yorktown, Virginia -
Treaty of Paris
Date: September 3, 1783
Caption: The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
Location: Paris, France -
Treaty of Paris (continued)
Terms of the Treaty:
Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent nation
America claimed land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from Canada to Spanish Florida
Britain promised to withdraw all troops from America
Britain gave America the right to fish in waters off of Canada
U.S. promised to pay back British merchants what they owed
U.S. promised to return property to loyalists
