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- 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.
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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
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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 round the world" by Ralph Waldo Emerson - BRITISH victory
- Battle of Concord - Americans stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston - AMERICAN victory
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- Benedict Arnold Ethan Allen capture the fort
- Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
- AMERICAN victory
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- Print $$$$
- 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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- Realizes men are disorganized and 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 and 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 vote YES on declaring independence
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- BABY YOU'RE A FIREWORKKKKKK