1. The Super-short version
Revolutionary War
The Super-short version

2. Please write the following dates down the left side of your Cornell notes and skip 5 lines between each date…
1765
1767
1770
1773
1774
1775
1776
1781
1783

3. 1765
Parliament passes the Stamp Act to help Britain raise money to pay their war debts
Colonists boycott British goods in protest

4. 1767 Parliament tries again… passes the Townshend Acts
Taxes on imports like lead, glass, paint, paper and tea
Colonists organized protest and shouted “no taxation without representation”
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty led protests in Boston, MA

5. 1770
Boston Massacre
5 people were killed
Colonists used this event to build momentum for a revolt
Dramatic pictures and engravings were published all over the colonies by Patriots

6. Boston Massacre engraving by Paul Revere

7. 1773 Britain passes laws that hurt American tea companies.
Boston Tea Party
Colonists dump tea into Boston harbor to protest the tax

8. Boston Tea Party

9. 1774
Intolerable Acts
King George punishes Boston
Designed to force the colonists to accept his rules
Boston harbor was closed.
Troops were placed in colonial American homes
Colonists organized the First Continental Congress

10. 1775
British Gen. Gage marches to Concord in search of colonial weapons storage
Paul Revere warns the colonists
Lexington and Concord
First battles between Redcoats and Minutemen
War begins

11. Retreat from Concord

12. 1776 Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published Declaration of Independence
Urged colonists to support independence
Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Sent to King George III

13. Reading of the Declaration of Independence from the State house in Boston

14. 1781 War drags on for 5 years. Battle of Yorktown
Americans use guerilla tactics against larger British force.
Battle of Yorktown
With help from the French navy, Patriots surround Cornwallis

15. Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown

17. 1783 Peace talks in Paris, France become official Americans send:
John Adams, John Jay and Ben Franklin
Treaty of Paris was signed in September, war ends

18. The Delegates
Franklin
Adams
Jay

19. Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas night, 1776

20. Summary
Write no less than 4 sentences summarizing the events that led to the American Declaration of Independence.