Road to Independence

By stu.ocarraj@mishawaka.k12.in.us
  • First Continental Congress meeting

    First Continental Congress meeting

    -All colonies but Georgia have representatives
    -vote to send the British a "statement of grievances" and boycott all British trade
    -Patrick Henry,VA rep, urged colonists to unite against Britain
  • 1,000's of redcoats in Boston

    1,000's of redcoats in Boston

    General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way

  • Midnight ride of Paul Revere

    Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "Redcoats are coming... The Redcoats are coming.."
  • Battles of Lexington & Concord

    Battles of Lexington & Concord

    -Battle of Lexington-
    -1st battle of American Revolutionary War
    -"Shot heard round the world"
    -British victory
    -Battle of concord
    -Americans stop British and force them to retreat
    back to Boston
    -American Victory

  • Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

    Benedict Arnold Ethan Allen capture the fort
    Get all supplies in the fort
    American Victory with zero shots fired
  • Second Continental Congress meet

    Second Continental Congress meet

    They started a post office
    Started to print money
    Created the Continental Army led by George Washington
    Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
    -King hires 30,000 Hessian Soldiers in response
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    -Fought on Breed's Hill
    -"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" -
    William Prescott
    -British Victory (Americans ran out of Ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would not be easy

  • Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental

    Realizes men are disorganized need discipline
    Need weapons

  • "Common sense" published by Thomas Paine

    Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
    "every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, tis Time to part

  • British Surrender Boston

    Washington believes his army is ready weapons arrive
    Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights
    British retreat- American Victory

  • Second Continental Congress meet again

    Debated on declaring Independence
    Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document

  • Second Continental Congress Votes for independence

    All 13 colonies vote yes on declaring Independence

  • The Declaration of independence is signed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!