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-All colonies but Georgia have representative
-Voted to send a "statement of grievances"
-Voted to Boycott all British trade
-Patrick Henry: VA rep. urged colonists to unite against Britain -
General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way. -
Paul Revere rides to want the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming... The British are coming.." -
Battle of Lexington
- 1st battle of the 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 -
- Benedict Arnold Ethan Allen capture the fort
- Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
- 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 hired 30,000 Hessian Soldiers in response -
- Fought on Breed's Hill
- "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." William Prescott
- British Victory
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-Realizes men are disorganized need discipline
-Need weapons -
-Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become Patriots
-"Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood from the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART" -Thomas Paine, Common Sense -
-Washington believes his army is ready 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 thirteen colonies vote YES on declaring independence -
