-Chapter+8+jr

-the 1775 bloodshed at Lexington and concord proved to be the beginning of the war -right after this 20,000 minute men from swarmed to help the British -May 10th, 1775, all thirteen colonies met at the second continental congress -George Washington is chosen by the congress to lead the army because he was from Virginia and Virginia was a required ally if the colonists wanted to win -the fight on Bunker Hill occurs and thousands of British are killed, but eventually the colonists are pushed back -the continental congress adopted the olive branch petition in 1775 begging the king to stop the hostilities -this petition outraged the king even more and he furthered the attacks -October 1775 the British burned Falmouth Maine -the British moved their way up to Canada to launch an attack -Montgomery is killed and the Canadian invasion fails in Quebec -1776 British set fire to Norfolk -the British are pushed out of Boston by March of 1776 and the battles at Moore’s Creek and Charleston Harbor are also won -Thomas Paine writes common sense and this really brings all the common men together to rile up against the British -Paine developed the idea of a republic -June 7th, 1776 Richard Henry Lee “these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states” -a committee is formed to write a formal statement of separation -July 2nd, 1776 the declaration of independence is passed and is widely popular -proved to be a war within a war because at the same time the “revolution” was happening, the loyalists and patriots were having many battles -persecution of the loyalist was relatively mild -Washington is amazingly outnumbered and he somehow finds a way to overcome the British -Burgoyne plans a huge takeover of the Hudson river valley in 1777 -attack failed because of General Arnold’s idea of a last chance attack -in 1778 the French and British start fighting -the war was now being fought in South America, the Caribbean, and Asia -1777 was known as the bloody year on the western frontier -from 1780-1781 the inflation of currency began going crazy -Cornwallis surrenders after being cornered by Washington and Rochambeau -lord north’s ministry collapses in 1782 and George III personal rule ends -a treaty of peace is signed in 1782 and 83