American Revolution - Battles and Treaty of Paris

2. Description: Stamp Act protest by William Bradford “… whether any methods can be found to elude the chains forged for us…”

4. First Continental Congress

5. Colonists began forming their own militia to resist the British.

9. Paul Revere’s & Robert Dawes Midnight Ride warning the minutemen in Lexington and Concord that the British were on their way.

21. Concord

24. MAY 1775 Second Continental Congress Meeting in Philadelphia. Colonial Representatives formed the Continental Army. George Washington was named general of the Continental Army.

28. Paine wrote Common Sense , a 79-page pamphlet in which he offered “nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense" on the idea of American independence from England. He began… "We have it in our power to begin the world anew...American shall make a stand, not for herself alone, but for the world,"

36. The new American flag

40. Winter at Valley Forge We had nothing to eat for two or three days previous… But we must now have what Congress said a lavish Thanksgiving. It gave everyman a few ounces of rice and a tablespoon of vinegar. The army was now not only starved but nearly naked.

47. April 1775 July 1775 July 4, 1776 1777 October 1781 1783 Olive Branch Petition Declaration of Independence Battle of Lexington & Concord Battle of Yorktown Battle of Saratoga Treaty of Paris May 1775 Second Continental Congress