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Where: This event occurred in New
York.
Who: The Sons of Liberty was a
group of Colonists who organized
protests against the British
Government. One of the members
was Samuel Adams.
• How: People got tired of paying the Stamp Tax.
when they bought a newspaper, or a pamphlet, or
even to sign a legal document.
• Why: When they bought a newspaper, or a
pamphlet, or even to sign a legal document they
had to pay the stamp tax. Then a man named
Patrick Henry spoke to the assembly. He said
anyone who paid the stamp tax was an enemy of
Virginia. Another burgess accused Henry of
treason.
The Townshend Act
April 1767
By: Alisha
Burnett
• The event occurred in
Boston, Massachusetts.
• The people and group who
were involved in it were:
The Governor Charles
Townshend, a man called
Mercy Otis Warren and a
group called Daughters of
Liberty.
• The Townsend Act
happened when people did
not want to pay their
taxes. They had to pay
their taxes for tea, paper,
glass, lead and paint to
Great Britain. The people
from Boston boycotted the
products shipped over by
the British. The
Daughters of Liberty
wrote an article on it too.
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre took place on March 5,1770.
Where it happened and Who
was involved.
This is a list of people involved
with this massacre.
Crispus Attucks, British Soldiers,
A group of teens, A group of
Boston citizens.
Where it happened
The Boston Massacre took place in Boston Massachusetts.
On the streets of Boston outside a court house.
How and Why This Event
Occurred.
How and Why it Happened - A group of colonists
were calling a guard names and a group of teenagers
were pelting him with snowballs. Then in the confusion
British Soldiers shot 5 men and they were called the
first tragedies of the American Revolutionary War.
It is reported that Crispus Attucks, a former
slave, shouted “The way to get rid of these soldiers is to
attack the main guard.” Then a group of British
soldiers shot and killed 5 men including
Attucks.
Boston Tea Party
December 16, 1773
By Josh Conover
The TEA PARTY!
Samuel Adams, his cousin, and 7,000
Bostonians were involved. The event
took place in Boston Massachusetts in
THE TEA PARTY
The Bostonians dressed up like
Mohawk Indians to dump the tea.
They did this because they were
tired of paying taxes and the
British wanted them to unload the
tea.
By: Angela Nicikowski
WHERE: Boston, Massachusetts
WHO: King George III
British Parliament
The people of Boston
Because of the Tea Party, King George III and Parliament
decided to punish the people of Boston. The passed the
following laws.
The Port of Boston was closed
Town meetings were banned
They were ordered to house and feed British soldiers
The Colonists called these laws the
By: Ally Gilmore
September 5, 1774
The First Continental Congress
was held at Carpenters Hall in
Pennsylvania. Delegates from
every colony, except Georgia
went.
It was held because the colonist thought the intolerable acts were
unfair and illegal. They formed a document to send to King George II
requesting that they be able to make their own laws without having
approval from the British. They also voted that Americans wouldn’t
drink tea until the British would stop taxing it.
April 18, 1775
By:Kelly
Schadt
Paul Revere rode from Charleston
to Lexington to Concord
Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel
Prescott, The British, and Henry
Wadsworth were the people and groups
that were involved in this event.
Paul Revere wanted to warn
every one that the British were coming.
Paul Revere did this on a horse.
Paul Revere’s saying was,
“The British are coming!
The British are coming.”
By: Steven Kerschner
The two sides
involved were the
Americans and the
British. The battle
took place in
Lexington,
Massachusetts.
The Battle of Lexington
started when Paul
Revere shouted “The
British are coming.”
Minutemen galloped
from their farms in
Lexington awaiting
the war.
The British knew they
were out numbered.
They only managed to
destroy one cannon.
After that the
minutemen began to
fire at the retreating
British men.
BY ANDREW PAXSON
BROUGHT TO YOU BY
THE BRITISH ARMY,
THE MILITIA, AND
THE MINUTE MEN IN
CONCORD,
MASSACHUSETTS.
THIS EVENT IS BROUGHT TO YOU BECAUSE, AFTER THE
BATTLE AT LEXINGTON, THE BRITISH THEN MARCHED 5
MILES TO CONCORD. KNOWING THEY WERE BADLY OUT
NUMBERED, THE 250 MILITIA MEN WAITED FOR ALLIES
AS THE RED COATS SEARCHED CONCORD. THEY
MANAGED TO DESTROY ONE CANNON AND SOME
AMMUNITION. THE WOMENOF CONCORD KEPT THE
WEAPONS HIDDEN FROM THE BRITISH.
THE MINUTEMEN, AIDED BY THE MILITIAMEN
FROM OTHER TOWNS, CAME UPON THE BRITISH
SOLDIERS, BLOCKING THE BRIDGE WEST OF CONCORD.
MUSKET BALLS WHISTLED THOUGH THE AIR. THE
MILITIAMEN WERE ORDERED TO FIRE AT WILL.
Click to see what happened next
THE COLONIST FORCED THE WEARY BRITISH TO RETREAT.
By Becky Axtell
Where: A Fort on Lake
Champlain
Who: The Green
Mountain Boys and
Ethan Allen against
the British
The Green Mountain Boys crept past the forts
light defenses. Allen woke the commander
and demanded his surrender. “Come out you
old rat,” he shouted. Without any blood
shed, Americans had captured British
canons and cut British support from
Canada.
THE SECOND
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
The date is:
MAY 3 through June 18
The Year is 1773
• The delegates of
Congress headed by
John Hancock met at:
Independence
Hall, Philadelphia
What Happened at the Meeting
Delegates prepared for war
George Washington was named
commander-in-chief of the new
Continental Army
A post office was started, so
everyone could share news
Benjamin Franklin was appointed
Postmaster General
By Jeff Kepner
The battle started June
17, 1775
The battle took place in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
People Involved:
• Peter Salem
• Israel Putnam
• The British
•The Colonists.
The battle of Bunker Hill happened
because The British drove 1,200 militia to
Charleston. The British seemed to have
the upper hand in the battle. The British
wanted to have the hills surrounding
Charleston so they could fire on Boston.
The colonists had to run to nearby
Bunker Hill.
Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Picture is of
John
Hancock
Where it occurred and who
was involved
It occurred in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia.
The people that were involved were John Adams, Ben
Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, John Hancock,
and Robert Livingston.
The United colonies wanted to
be free and independent states from
Great Britain. They wrote a
Declaration of Independence. After
the Declaration was debated and
approved, it was signed on July 4th,
1776.
Where: Trenton, New Jersey,
Who:
George Washington and the Continental
Army,
1,400 Hessian Troops fighting for the
British
George Washington
knew the British
wouldn’t attack again
until spring.
George Washington
planned a surprise
attack on Christmas
Day and the Hessians
quickly surrendered!
WHAT= Battle of Saratoga
WHEN= 1777
WHERE= Canada, heading South
toward Albany, New York.
General John Burgoyne, Benedict
Arnold, American offensive, British
troops, General Henry Clinton, General
William Howe
John Burgoyne, the British
General, decided to capture
the Hudson River Valley.
This would cut New
England from New York.
That would be bad for the
colonists..
After two months of
fighting, the Americans
won the battle over the
British.
What’s your
important event
called?
Winter at Valley
Forge!!!!
BY: KELSEY
KUZNICKI
Oh ok!
GENERAL HOWE AND HIS SOLDIERS,
GEORGE WASHINGTON, GENERAL
BURGOYNE, AND FRIEDRICK VON
STUBEN TOOK CAMP IN VALLEY
FORGE PENNSYLVANIA!
Howe and his soldiers took winter at
valley forge at the turning point of the
Revolutionary War.
There Friedrik Von Stuben (a
German soldier from Prussia) helped the
troops learn the tactics of war, which helped
the soldiers in the upcoming battle. (The
troops didn‘t know a thing about war)
Troops before
Von Stuben
OVER HALF of the troops died of
sickness or cold. Some even retreated home.
This left Howe and his troops hopeless!
“YOU MIGHT
HAVE TRACKED
THE ARMY, BY
THE BLOOD OF
THEIR FEET
UPON THE
SNOW!”
QUOTE BY GEORGE
WASHINGTON
The place where this event occurred is in the
Ohio River Valley.
The people who were involved with this event
are the British, and George Roger Clark and his
group of men.
This event started by the British. The British took Fort
Vincennes back from George Roger Clark. The Fort
originally was the British's fort but Clark captured it.
Once Clark was notified, he planned to march with his
men to the fort and take it back again. So as Clark
planned, him and his men marched to Fort Vincennes in
February 1779. When they got to the fort, they yelled and
made the British think they had lots of men so the British
surrendered.
The Battle of Serapis v.
Bonhomme Richard
By Jake Gearhart
It happened in September,
1779
The Naval battle happened in
the North Sea
The people involved were
John Paul Jones, The British
Navy , and the American
Navy.
HOW AND WHY IT HAPPENED
The American Navy was poorly equipped compared to the
British Navy. The Bonhomme Richard faced the British
battleship, Serapis. The Serapis was destroying them.
When the British asked them if they wanted to surrender,
John Paul Jones answered, “I have not yet begun to fight!”
The Bonhome Richard sunk, but with the courage of John
Paul Jones, the Americans boarded the Serapis. Then in the
end it was the British who surrendered and not the
Americans.
March 15,
1781
By: Tyler Croll
The Battle happened in Guilford Court House, North Carolina.
The people involved:
General Cornwallis for the British
General Greene for the Americans
 4500 American soldiers
 2200 British soldiers.
In March 1781, at Guilford Court House,
a Battle happened.
Cornwallis continued to fight using the
shoulder to shoulder method, despite
warnings from his men. This made them
easy targets for the Americans to pick off
one by one.
One-fourth of Cornwallis’s men died in
this battle. The British won, however,
only because Nathanial Greene and his
men retreated.
This was the last stand for the British.
October 17,
1981
By: Valerie DeSilva
Where?
The Battle of Yorktown
took place
in Yorktown which is located in
Virginia.
Who?
The people involved in
The Battle of Yorktown include:
-General Cornwallis
-General Washington
-Servant James Armistead
-General Lafayette
-American soldiers
-French soldiers and
-British soldiers
Below is a picture of
General Cornwallis.
How & Why
The Battle of Yorktown started when
General Cornwallis asked his servant James
Armistead to spy on the Americans, but he
didn’t know James was already spying for
the Americans. James alerted General
Lafayette of Cornwallis’s plans and also gave
Cornwallis false information about the
Americans. Then Washington tricked
Cornwallis into thinking he was going to
attack New York. But instead the American
and French soldiers surrounded Yorktown
and blocked harbors with ships. There were
more than 17,000 soldiers. When Cornwallis
realized he was outnumbered he surrendered
and that was the end of the Revolutionary
War.
Above is a
picture of
General
Washington.
September 3,
1783
By: Samantha
Smith
The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War. The
British recognized the USA independence.
The land west of the Appalachian Mountains became
part of the United States. Florida was returned to
Spain, an ally of the Patriots.
The USA and the British signed a treaty which now is
called the Treaty of Paris.