American Revolutionary
War
First Continental Congress
1774
John Dickinson
John Adams
Patrick Henry
Declaration of
Resolves/Rights
Shot Heard Round the World
Minutemen
April 1775 British Officer Thomas Gage
Seize weapons at Concord
Paul Revere
Shot Heard Round the World
April 19 1775, Lexington outnumbered
colonists
Shot Heard Round the World START OF
REVOLUTIONARY WAR!
Shot Hear Round the World
Concord weapons
Battle at Concord
250 British dead
(Redcoats)
>100 Colonists dead
Inaccurate weapons
Second Continental Congress
May 1775 Philadelphia, PA
Do not break away
Build Continental Army- George
Washington as Commander
Second Continental Congress
July 5 1775 Olive Branch Petition-
Richard Penn
King George III Rejects Why?
Early Battles
A. Fort Ticonderoga
Lake Champlain
Arnold and Allen
Defeat British take
weapons
Early Battles
B. Bunker Hill and
Breeds Hill
Boston under siege
Colonists on hills
Low on ammunition
Retreat
Defeated BUT - Moral
victory
1,000 British Casualties
400 Colonial Casualties
Early Battles
C. Dorchester Heights
Washington brings in
the big guns
British siege
overthrown
Boston back in colonial
control
Thomas Paine
1776
Common Sense
47 pages
Why was it
so popular?
Declaration of Independence
Influenced by Paine
June 1776
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
Roger Sherman
Robert R. Livingston
Declaration of Independence
Intro, Rights, Complaints,
Independence
Criticized King George III
Influence of the
Enlightenment Social
Contract Theory
July 2, July 4, Aug 2 1776
Declaration of Independence
Enlightenment beliefs
Respect natural rights
Life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness
Corrupt governments
King George III
Choosing Sides
Patriots: Support Revolution/ Traitor to your
mother country
Loyalist: remain loyal to mother country
July 1776 - At the Signing of the Declaration of Independence:
"We must indeed all hang together, or, most
assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
~Benjamin Franklin
Trenton
Christmas 76
Washington crosses the Delaware River
British use of Mercenaries/Hessians.
Morale booster!
Princeton
Jan. 77
Campfires burning
Morale Boost
Saratoga
Oct. 77
26 days 25 miles
Lack of communication
Biggest win to this
point
Gain support of France
and Spain
Valley Forge
Winter of 77 78
of the troops die Washington
gambles
Von Steuben Prussian Officer
Well trained army
Vincennes
George Rogers
Clark
Kaskaskia/Cahokia
British lose Western
hold
Camden
Aug. 80
Gates vs. Cornwallis
Cornwallis dominating
the South
Gates men sick off
cornmeal and
molasses
Cornwallis destroys
patriot army
Yorktown
Fall 81
Siege on Yorktown
trap Cornwallis
Help of French Navy
Washington from
NY - Rochambeau
Last major battle of
American
Revolution
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Benjamin Franklin
negotiates with
British
Cornwallis
surrenders in 81 but
treaty not signed
until 83.
