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. 1773 colonists raided
Boston harbor and destroyed
the tea and burned the ships
-resulted in more troops being
sent to the colonies

3. Intolerable Acts
-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 1774 1st meeting held in
Philadelphia
-discussed rights of colonies
-agreed to meet again in 1 year

5. Lexington and Concord
-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“
-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. Common Sense
-many colonists had loyalties that
were strong to Britain
-Loyalists
-Patriots
-Common Sense
-pamphlet that urges independence
for the colonies
-Thomas Paine
-Jan. 1776