The American RevolutionRevolution

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• The Coercive Act provoked open rebellion in America.• In many colonies local and often long-standing quarrels became so

entangled with imperial antagonisms that they reinforced one another in a spiraling momentum that brought all governmental authority into question.

• In April of 1775 fighting broke out in Massachusetts.• Later that month Gages army attempted to seize rebel arms and

ammunition stored in a town near Boston.

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• Shots were fired between the colonial militia and British troops at Lexington on April 19, 1775.

• The Battle of Bunker Hill followed marked a British victory marked with heavy British casualties.

• The Second Continental Congress met during the war and created the Continental Army.

• The American Army invaded Canada in the winter of 1775.

• In March of 1776 George Washington and the Continental Army forced British forces out of Boston.

• By July of 1776 revolutionaries were in control of all 13 colonies and loyalists lost all control.

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