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-print $$$$$$$$$$$$
-set up a post office
-Created Continental Army led by George Washington
-sent Olive Branch asking King to protect their rights
-Kings hired 30,000 hessians Soldiers in response -
- All Colonies but Georgia have representatives.
- voted to send a "Statement of Grievances".
- voted to Boycott all British trade
- Patrick Henry- VA rep. urged Colonists to Unite against Britain
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-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.." -
-Battle of Lexington
-1st battle of American Revolutionary War
-"Shot heard round the world"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-British victory
-Battle of Concord
American 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 cannon
-American victory -
-Fought on Breed's Hill map
-"Don't Fire until you see the whites of there eyes"-William Prescott
-British Victory (Americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy -
-Realize men are disorganized & need discipline
-Need weapons -
-pamphlet inspires more colonist to become patriots -"every thing 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 -
-Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrives
- Washington puts his cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
-British retreat- American Victory -
- Debating on declaration independence
- Thompson Jefferson is the primary author of the document
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-All 13 colonies voted YES on declaration of indepence -
