Yankee Doodle Dandy

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Sons of Liberty

• Motto– Join or Die

• Broke into the homes of the tax collectors and beat them

• Burned the hated tax stamps.

• Americans did all that they could to rebel against the British.

The Boston Massacre

The Boston Tea Party

The First Continental Congress

The Minutemen

“The shot heard ‘round the World”

Bunker Hill

Who would win?

• Government strongest in world

• lots of money• army strongest in the

world• many officers• Navy ruled the seas• fighting 3000 miles

away form home

• Government did not yet exist

• no money• army made up of

citizen-soldiers • few officers• no navy• fighting at home -

British American

Resources

• http://www.mce.k12tn.net/revolutionary_war/American_revolution.htm