Steps Toward Independence

First Continental Congress, 1774

Carpenter’s Hall

Philadelphia

Galloway’s plan

Statement of grievances

Embargo

Lexington and Concord

Thomas Gage

April 8, 1775

William Dawes and Paul Revere

Second Continental Congress, 1775

John Adams

Samuel Adams

Richard Henry Lee

John Dickinson – moderate

Washington appointed commander of Continental Army, 1775

Battle of Bunker Hill

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Jan. 1776

Howe abandons Boston

Howe (British) takes Long Island

Declaration of Independence

July 2, 1776

Thomas Jefferson

Article of Confederation

Adopted November 1777

Firm league of friendship

Howe occupies Philadelphia

Valley Forge

Burgoyne surrenders to Gates at Saratoga

Clinton replaces Howe, 1778

British leave Philadelphia

British turn to the south

British capture Savannah

British capture Charleston, 1780

British surrender at Yorktown, 1781

Cornwallis

Article of Confederation adopted

Treaty of Paris, 1783