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The first continental Congress met in Philadelphia to resolve the conflict with the English
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patriots chose to join the fight for independence and the loyalists stayed loyal to Britian.
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A British general decided to disarm the Boston militia known minutemen.The sons of liberty learned the the British plan.
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Representatives from 12 of the colonies met agin in Philadelphia for the second continental congress.They made plans for a continental Army and chose George Wwashington to command it.
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Bendict Arnold and Ethan Allen took over the British force Ticonderoga
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Offered freedom to enslaved Arificans, if they fought for the Continental Army.
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Aggresive Patriots launched an attack, on British settlements but failed.
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Thomas pain wrote a paplinte that argued for breaking away from great Britian.It was written in the style of writting that people can understand.
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Drafted the Deceration of Independence. This document expressed three ideas: that all man possess the unalienable rights of 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,'.
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Drafted the Declaration of independince, and the USA was born.
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Britain come in and drive the army out of New York
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Washington and 2400 soldiars crossed the Delaware River they suprised the British with a huge win in the Battle of Trenton.
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France and Spain agree to help the Americans
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Britan: Better navy, more soilders more experience, better wepons and was the strongest millitary at the time.
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Killed more than a 5th of Washingtons soliders, due to a harsh winter.
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George Rogers Clark, an explorer and mapper, built a frontier army while weakening the Britishand convinced Americans Indians to saty out of the war.
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The British had a large navy,so Americans attacked individual ships rather tahn fighting lare battles. With fewer than 100 ships, the Americans navy sank 200 British ships.
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Patriots were doing well, until they took a large blow from Benedict Arnold going to the British side.
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Washington planned a combined American and French attack on Yorktown. After a weeks-long siege, the British were defeated.
