1. Revolution Begins

2. Boston Tea Party
-tax on tea still remained in effect
-Monopoly on tea had been granted to British Tea Company
-Dec colonists raided Boston harbor and destroyed the tea and burned the ships
-resulted in more troops being sent to the colonies

3. A tool to punish the Colonist
Intolerable Acts
A tool to punish the Colonist
-Parliament passes Coercive Act to punish Boston
-Colonists called it the Intolerable acts
-closed Boston harbor
-suspended basic civil rights
-housed troops in peoples homes
-Committees of Correspondence begin

4. 1st Continental Congress
-Committees of Correspondence
this group had been communicating with other colonies
-militias begin to form
minutemen
-after Intolerable Acts they call for a meeting
-late st meeting held in Philadelphia
-discussed rights of colonies
-agreed to meet again in 1 year

5. 1st and 2nd major conflicts of the Revolution
Lexington and Concord
1st and 2nd major conflicts of the Revolution
-April 1775
-British try to seize weapons stored in Concord
-Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott warn colonists
-minutemen met British at Lexington
-shots fired and colonists killed
-”shot heard around the world“
Lexington
-colonist conduct guerilla battle along road to Concord

6. 2nd Continental Congress
-May 1775
-called for an army and appointed George Washington as leader
-some talk of compromise and some of independence

7. Bunker Hill
-June 1775
-Colonists take hill overlooking Boston (Breed’s Hill)
-British charge the hill 3 times until colonists run out of ammo
-lots of casualties
-deadliest battle of war
-proved colonists could compete with the British army in certain situations

8. Olive Branch
-July 1775
-2nd Continental Congress sends King George a petition to return to the peace of the past
-he refuses the petition and urges the rebellion put down

9. Call for complete independence from Britain
Common Sense
Call for complete independence from Britain
-many colonists had loyalties that were strong to Britain
-Loyalists: Those loyal to the King
-Patriots: those who pushed for independence
-Common Sense
-pamphlet that urges independence for the colonies
-Thomas Paine
-Jan. 1776