1. Warm Up Prepare for Notes and Discussion Hand in GR Packet and Lexington Map into 2 piles on front table

2. So You Want a Revolution?

3. After the First Shot… Colonial Militia continue to gather around Boston Continental Congress alarmed at bloodshed

4. Colonists Divided Loyalist v. Patriot

5. Fighting Continues Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys Benedict Arnold Fort Ticonderoga May 1775

9. A Call to Arms Sent out by Committees of Correspondence

10. Bunker Hill June 16, 1775

12. Battle of Bunker Hill: June, 1775 British want to push MA militia off strategic hill

13. Effect… British won the Battle of Bunker Hill but lost more than a 1,000 soldiers Militia surround British in Boston  SIEGE

14. Washington Reaches Boston July 1775 Training the Army Recaptures Boston using artillery from Ticonderoga British To Retreat to Halifax

15. The Second Continental Congress May 10 1775

16. Who Were the Delegates?

17. Ben Franklin

18. John Hancock

19. Thomas Jefferson

20. John and Sam Adams

21. Roger Sherman

22. John Dickinson & Thomas Mifflin

23. Caesar Rodney

24. The Early Minutes 12 / 13 Colonies Print Money Post Office Continental Army

25. Olive Branch Petition Peace Protect Rights Response of crown - 30,000 Hessians

26. Common Sense Thomas Paine ~ It is common sense that the colonies should want independence from England

27. Proposing Independence Richard Henry Lee 3 Man Committee to draft a document – Adams – Franklin – Jefferson

28. The Declaration of Independence April 1776 July 2, 1776 July 4, 1776 Aug 2, 1776

29. Declaration of Independence Activity When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation

30. Warm Up Take Out Declaration Worksheet and work on for 10 minutes

31. The Declaration of Independence

32. Declaration of Independence Activity When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation

33. Quiz Review