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This was the time in a huge shift in the ideas of all the colonist. That was when the ideas, that everybody has rights to resist or
overthrow and things like thomas paine's common sense which this cause to english supporters to have a massive decline in the colonist -
colonial leaders meet up in philadelphia to discuss if they are going to rebel against britain or ask for forgiveness .
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when the war began there were two sides in america the loyalist and the patriots.The patriots feel that america should be free from the english while the loyalist still support the english. many american where neutral.The first place that the brits was new york since it had a big effect on the economy. The english used 32,000 soldiers
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paul revere,william dawes and samuel prescott spread 700 redcoats were headed for concord.70 minutemen lined up to versus them and lost.But on the way the colonist ambushed them with 3,000 to 4,000 minute men And left the redcoats hopeless
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The redcoats sent 2,400 british soldiers up to attack bunker hill.The colonist had the advantage on shooting down at the brits. while the redcoats suffered 1,000 dead soldiers and colonist 450 men. the colonists end up drive the english back
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A bunch of colonists leaders and people like ben franklin .Thomas jefferson wrote the final draft his took inspiration for a man called locke's ideas
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At saratoga american troop surrounded burgoyne and made british troops surrender. low on food and supplies washington and his troops (the continental army )more than 2,000 soldiers died but others didn't leave because of george washington's leadership
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one big problem is that congress ran out of money so they raised taxes on the colonist. congress appointed a rich philadelphia mechant to help fix the problem. It also helped free over 5,000 african slaves.
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At valley forge washington soldiers were just a rag-tag bunch of colonist then he brought in a frenchmen who knew how to change the soldiers into soldiers his name was friedrich von steuben. washington and his new army chased the british into yorktown which is were they eventually surrendered
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After the revolutionary war reaches all over the world and there is a new sparking the world more and more countries start revolt after being influnced by the americans
