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-All colonies but Georgia have representatives -
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way. -
- Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming...The British are coming..."
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Battle of Lexington
- 1st battle of the American Revolutionary War
- "Shot heard around the world" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- British Victory Battle of Concord
- Americans stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
- AMERICAN Victory -
- Benedict Arnold Ethan Allen capture the fort.
- Get all supplies in the first including cannons
- American Victory
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Print money
Form a committee to handle relations between Native Americans
Set up a post office
Created the Continental Army led by GW
Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
- King hired 30,000 Hessians soldiers in response -
- Fought on Breed's Hill
- "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" - William Prescott
- British Victory (Americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would not be easy.
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Realizes men are disorganized and need discipline
Need weapons -
Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots.
"Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART" -Thomas Paine, Common Sense. -
Washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive.
Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston.
British retreat -- American victory -
Debate on declaring independence.
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document. -
All 13 colonies vote yes on declaring independence
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fireworks