1. The American Revolution

2. French & Indian War (Seven Years War)

3. King George III

4. George Grenville
Prime Minister’s Plan to Pay French & Indian War Debt
Sugar Act (1764)
Currency Act (1764)
Quartering Act (1765)
Stamp Act (1765)

5. Stamp Act Crisis, 1765

6. Townsend Acts (1767) Taxes on Imported Goods: Paint, Paper, & Tea Suspends New York General Assembly

7. Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770

8. Samuel Adams & the Sons of Liberty

9. Boston Tea Party December 1773

10. 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

11. The Continental Congress September 5, 1774

12. The Empire Strikes Back
Lord Frederick North

13. “The Shot Heard Around the World” April 19, 1775
The Battle of Lexington

14. Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775

15. Second Continental Congress April 1775
Olive Branch Petition
Create Continental Army
Appointed General George Washington to Command the Army

16. General George Washington

17. Thomas Paine & Common Sense (1776)

18. John Adams
Robert Livingston
Benjamin Franklin
Roger Sherman
Thomas Jefferson

19. Declaration of Independence

20. The Exodus of the Loyalists

22. “These are the times that try men’s souls” Thomas Paine, “The Crisis”

23. Battle of Trenton, Christmas 1776

24. Valley Forge, Pennsylvania Winter 1777-1778

25. Cornwallis at Yorktown October 19, 1781

26. “Oh God! It’s All Over”
Lord Frederick North

27. Treaty of Paris September 3, 1783

28. African Americans & the American Revolutionary War

29. Molly Pitcher