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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- Virginia representative. urged colonists to unite against Britain -
-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.." -
-Battles 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 -
-They Printed Money$$$$$
-Set up a post office
-Created the Continental Army led by George Washington
-Sent Olive Branch petition asking King to protect their rights
-King hires 30,000 Hessian soldiers in response -
- Benedict Arnold Ethan Allen capture the fort
- Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
- AMERICAN VICTORY
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-Realizes men are disorganized need discipline -Needs weapons
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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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-pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
-"Every thing that is right ore 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 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