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the Nav Acts were a set of rules that the English parliament imposed on the colonist. it made the colonists sell all raw materials to England, even though they might be able to find better prices elsewhere in England
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when colonists were throwing stuff at the state house boycotting. People died and got injured during this -
George Washington built a fort called Fort Necessity to defend himself because the Virginia government made a militia to try and drive out the french -
The military Governor, general Thomas Gage, of Boston had orders from paraliment to seize weapons and arrest leaders of the Massachusetts militia. -
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 American colonies (Georgia absent) in Philadelphia from September 5 to October 26, 1774. -
Revere, Dawes, and Prescott were detained by a British Army patrol in Lincoln at a roadblock on the way to Concord. Prescott jumped his horse over a wall and escaped into the woods. He eventually reached Concord. Dawes also escaped, though he fell off his horse not long after and did not complete the ride. -
After an initial skirmish in Lexington where eight colonists were killed, British troops moved to Concord but were met by hundreds of militia, who ultimately forced them into a disorganized retreat to Boston.