2. Original Colonies
New Hampshire • Massachusetts Bay • Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations • Connecticut • New York • New Jersey •
Pennsylvania • Delaware • Maryland • Dominion of Virginia •
North Carolina • South Carolina • Georgia
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3. Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770
“The town of Boston affords a recent and
melancholy demonstration of the destructive
consequences of quartering troops among
citizens in time of Peace...a number of
regiments were ordered to this town...to
enforce oppressive measures to awe and control
the legislative...and to quell a spirit of
liberty...”
- An Account of a Late Military
massacre at Boston
Engraving by Paul Revere
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5. 2nd Continental Congress
Washington crosses the Delaware
The Tea Act Battle of Camden
Boston Tea Party
Battle of
Yorktown
Treaty with Spain
Battle of Bunker Hill
Surrender of
Declaration of Independence
General
Battle of Savannah Cornwallis
The Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress
Treaty with France
Battle of Princeton Battle of King’s Mountain
Battle of Lexington Winter at Valley Forge
and Concord
1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782
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6. Major Figures
George Washington Thomas Jefferson John Adams James Madison
Alexander Hamilton Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine John Jay
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7. uniforms
George Washington’s
Loyalist Uniform
Uniform
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8. Declaration of
Independence
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they are
endowed, by their Creator, with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
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9. War Dead
Died in Battle Died from Disease
30,000
22,500
15,000
7,500
0
Revolutionaries British
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10. Cost of the War
500,000,000
400,000,000
300,000,000
200,000,000
100,000,000
0
American British
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11. treaty (1783)
• Ended the War
• 13 colonies free and
sovereign
• Established boundaries
• Recognized debts and
confiscated property
Painting by Benjamin West depicting (from left to right) John
• Granted fishing rights Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and
William Temple Franklin. The British commissioners
refused to pose, so the painting was never finished.
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