The American Revolution

Coercive/Intolerable Acts,
1774
Closed the Port at Boston Harbor
Dismantled Massachusetts General
Assembly

Removed Royal Officials from Local

Courts

Required the Quartering of British Troops

The Continental Congress

The Empire Strikes Back

Lord Frederick North

The Shot Heard Around the

World April 19, 1775

Paul Revere

The Battle of Lexington

Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775

http://www.revolutionarywaranimated.com/LexingtonAnimation.html:

Second Continental Congress

April 1775
Olive Branch Petition
Create Continental Army
Appointed General
George Washington to
Command the Army

General George Washington

Thomas Paine & Common Sense (1776)

John Adams

Robert Livingston
Benjamin Franklin

These Men
wrote the
Declaration of
Independence
Thomas Jefferson

Roger Sherman

Declaration of Independence

The
Exodus
of the
Loyalis
ts

Sept 19 - Oct 7,1777

June 17,1775
April
19,1775
June 28, 1778

Dec. 26 1776

Oct. 19, 1783

October 7th, 1780

The New York Campaign

1776

http://revolutionarywaranimated.com/NewYorkAnimation.html

Battle of Trenton, Dec. 26,

1776

The Battle of Saratoga

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania - Winter 1777-1778

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

African Americans & the

American Revolutionary War

Cornwallis at Yorktown
October 19, 1781

http://www.revolutionarywaranimated.com/YorktownAnimation.htm

Oh God! Its All Over

John Adams
John Jay
Lord Frederick North

Ben
Franklin

Treaty of Paris
September 3, 1783

Why the Americans Won

United States

France

Vs

Great Britain

Spain
Kingdom of Hesse-Rhine
Holland

A Tale of the Tape

America
Armies

Great Britain

USA -20,000 troops

Armies

France- 9,000 troops in North

America with more fighting the
British in West Indies and India

Great Britain-50,000 troops

Navy - Less than 100 total ships

supplemented by a large number of
privateers that attacked mostly
merchant traffic and the Navies of
France, Spain, and the Netherlands
that attacked around the world

Hessians-30,000
mercenaries
Navy largest and most
powerful of the time

Molly Pitcher

Baron Von Stueben