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September 27th 1773

December 16, 1773

April 9, 1775

July 2, 1776

Timeline of the Founding of the United States

"The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America."

Samuel Adams helped organize resistance to the Stamp Act (1765) and played an important role in organizing the Boston Tea Party.

His views were political and were against the British Taxation. He believed that the idea of taxing was horrid and with the views of the British, helped the colonists and the Revolutionary war.

Independence

The independence movement was growing. Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet titled Common Sense. Samuel Adams influenced the colonists with his views. Former President of the Continental Congress.

The Declaration of Independence

The final Declaration of Independence was approved on this date. John Hancock was the first one to sign it in big, bold letters. Then 56 other delegates signed after him.

The document's actual title was,

January 9, 1776

Committees of Correspondence:

These committees consisted of Colonists who wanted to keep in touch as events happened. This was important because it spread quickly; it was a communication network.

July 4 1776

The communication network was an emergency government response about the British.

It was a huge network of communication throughout the Thirteen Colonies between Patriot leaders. Giving them a heads up about the British constantly.

1772

1776

1774

1780

1770

Richard Henry Lee was an American statesman from Virginia and known for the part he played in the Second Continental Congress, getting the colonies' independence from Great Britain.

Also was the President of the Continental Congress in 1789.

The Intolerable Acts was a series of punishment laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.

They were meant to punish the Massachusetts Colonists for their act in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor.

The Boston Tea Party

A group of Colonists, dressed up as Mohawk Indians, dumped hundreds of boxes of British Tea into the Boston Harbor to protest higher tea taxes. The protest was known as the Boston Tea Party.

This was important because after this happened, Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts. Even in the early 1770s, people could tell that the revolution wasn't far away.

The First Continental Congress

The delegates inflicted a trade embargo on Great Britain. This was important because Britain then changed quickly and adopted stronger measures and became more fierce and threatening. That led to the first battle of the Revolutionary War.

The Declraration

After Lee's resolution, the Congress named a committee joined by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman to prepare a written declaration. The congress then focused on Jefferson's draft. Most things from the draft stayed but a lot was changed on the final.

This was important because, on July 4th, the congress approved the final draft of the Declaration of Independence.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military battle of the American Revolutionary War in April 19, 1775

They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (now it's known as Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston.

Bibliography

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/10-events-leading-up-to-the-declaration-of-independence

By Mike Reutov

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