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- All colonies but Georgia have representatives
- Voted to send a "statement of grievances"
- Voted to Boycott all British Trade
- Patrick Henry- VA rep. urged colonists to unite against Britain
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- General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way
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- 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 American Revolutionary War
- "Shot heard round the world" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- BRITISH Victory
- Battle of Concord -
- Americans Stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
- AMERICAN Victory
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- Print $$$$
- Set up a post office
- Created Continental Army led by George Washington
- Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
- King hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in response
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- Benedict Arnold Ethan Allen capture the fort
- Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
- AMERICAN Victory
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- 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 need discipline
- Need weapons
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- pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
- "Everything 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
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- Washington believes his army is ready weapons arrive
- Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
- BRITISH retreat - AMERICAN Victory
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- Debate on declaring independence
- Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document.