We will be learning about significant events that led up to America's independence.
The Seven Years War. The French and Indian War was the beginning of the hostilities between the colonies and Great Britain.
Parliament passed the Currency Act, effectively assuming control of the colonial currency system.
The merchants and traders in the town of Boston because of the scarcity of money and because of the heavy takes from Great Britain decide they will put into effect five agreements.
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770 between patriots throwing snowballs, sticks, and stones at a squad of British Soldiers. This was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War.
The Tea Act, was passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773 was the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston.
When Great Britain decided to put a tax on tea the Colonists rebelled against British taxation and dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.
Patrick Henry delivers his famous "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" Speech
Two lanterns hanging from Boston's North Church informed the countryside that the British were going to attack by sea.
George Washington was much more than the Commander in Chief. He was the one necessary person, whose calm, unswerving, determined sense of patriotic duty to country, and ability put real backbone into the Revolution and kept it from collapsing under the hardships and unexpected privations encountered during the eight years of war.
Instead of being on Bunker Hill the rebels ended up being on Breed's Hill by mistake.
Thomas Paine published Common Sense that challenged the authority of the British Government.
Betsy Ross reports that she sewed the first American Flag
The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.
The treaty between France and the United States provided a defensive alliance for the United States.
On the night of July 15, Wayne and his men gathered at the foot of Stony Point. As they approached, the garrison was aroused and began to shower cannon and musketry fire into the ranks of the assailants. However, the carefully planned attack was continued as each man knew exactly what his duty was.
Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present the seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
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