Video: The Revolutionary War - Declarations of Independence

Summary:

Description: Learn why Jefferson was a reluctant author of the Declaration, and how elusiveness, as much as anything, defined General Washington’s early campaigns. Then follow the fateful crossing of the Delaware, and the subsequent battles that made Washington a legend. © 2004 Discovery Channel School Grades: 6-8      (26 min.)

Segments:

Revolutionary War: Early Challenges (07:29)
George Washington Takes Command of a Rebel Army Short on Supplies (02:36)
Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold Fail to Take Canada (04:52)
Revolutionary War: Individual Patriots Influence Events (06:47)
Thomas Paine Writes What Many Colonists Are Thinking in (03:12)
Henry Knox Brings Cannons to George Washington in Boston Forcing General Howe to Leave (03:34)
Revolutionary War: The Declaration of Independence (07:57)
Thomas Jefferson Writes the Declaration of Independence (04:28)
Congress Passes the Declaration of Independence and the United States of America Is Born (03:28)