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Debate on declaring independenc Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
wahsington belives his army is ready & weapons arrive
washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking boston
BRITISH retreat - AMERICAN Victory -
All 13 colonies votes yes on declaring independence -
Events
Events
Events -
paul revere rides to warn the sons of liberty in lexington and concord that the ''british are coming... the britrsh are coming...''
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benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort.
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
AMERICAN Victory -
print $$$
set up post office
created contintal Army led by george washington
sent olive branch asking king to soldiers in response -
Fought on Breed's hill map.
Don't fire unit you see the whites of their
eyes''- William Prescott.
british Victory (Americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy. -
Realizes men are disorganized & need
discipline Need weapons -
-1st battle of american revolutionary war
-''shot heard round the word'' -Ralph waldo
Emerson
-BRITISH Victory
Battle of concord
-American stop british and force them to retreat back to boston
-AMERICAN Victory -
pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots Every thing that is right or reasonable -
Great Britain needed money to pay for French and Indian War & the cost of still defending the colonist from Indian attacks
How did they go about raising money? -
British crackdown on smuggling of goods
Smugglers arrested if caught
Guilty until proven innocent
Enforced by writs of assistance (search warrant) -
Parliament’s taxes upset colonists
Parliament =law making group of Great Britain
James Otis
Argued that Parliament had no right to tax without consent (permission)
*Colonists had no representatives
In Parliament, BUT they had to
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