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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 many British troops 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..." -
- Battle of Lexington
- 1st official battle of American Revolutionary War
- "shot heard round the world" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- British victory
- Battle of Concord
- Americans stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
- AMERICAN victory
- Battle of Lexington
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- 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 cannons
- American victory
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- fought on Breed's Hill
- "Don't fire until you can 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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- Realizes men are disorganized need discipline
- Need weapons
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- Pamphlet inspires more colonists 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
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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 YES on declaring independence
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fireworks