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-All the colonies but Georgia have representatives.
-votes to send a "statement of grievances(a list of complaints)
-votes 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.
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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
- first battle of American Revolutionary War
-"shot herd round the world"-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-BRITISH victory.
Battle of Concord
-Americans stop the 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 -
- print $$$
- Set up post office -Created Continental Army led by George Washington
- Send an Olive Branch asking king to protect their rights. -king hires 30,000 Hessians soldiers in response
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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. -
- Realizes men are disorganized need discipline
- need weapons
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- 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 nature cried, 'TIS TIME TO PART.' - Thomas Paine. Common Sense
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- Washing ton 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 doc