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- All colonies but Georgia have representatives
- Voted to send a "statement of grievances"
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- 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 :
- 1st battle of the American Revolutionary War
- "Shot heard around the world" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- BRITISH Victory Battle of Concord :
- Americans stop the British and force them to retreat back to Boston
- AMERICAN Victory -
- Print Money
- Set up post office
- Created Continental Army led by George Washington
- Sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights - King hires 30,000 Hessian Soldiers in response
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- Benedict Arnold Ethan Allen capture the fort
- Get all supplies in the fort including canons
- AMERICAN Victory
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- fought on Breed's Hill
- "Don't Fire until you see the white of their eyes" - William Prescott -BRITISH Victory (Americans ran out of ammo) British learn defeating Americans would not be easy.
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- Realizes men are disorganized need discipline
- Need weapons
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- Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
- "Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART" - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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- Washington 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 document
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- All 13 colonies voted in support (YES)
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INDEPENDENCE DAY!!