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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
- all colonies but Georgia have representatives
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General Gage brings thousands of British solders to Boston
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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 american revolutionary war -"shot herd round the would"-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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- Benidict Arnold & Ethan Allen captur ethe fort
- get all supplise in the fort including cannons
- AMERICAN victory
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*Print $$$$
*set up post office
*created continental army led by George Wshington
*sent Olive Branch asking King to protect there rights
-king hires 30,000 Hessian Soldiers in response -
- fought on Breed's Hill
- "dont fire until u see the whites of there eyes" -William Prescott *BRITISH victory (Americans ran out of ammunition)British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy.
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*Reasilizes men are disorganized and need discipline
*need wepons -
*pamphlet inspiers more colonists to become patriots
* "Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for seperation.The blood of the slain,the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART" -Thomas Paine,Common Sense -
*washington belives his army is ready and wepons arrive
*Washington puts cannons on dorchester hights overlooking Boston
*BRITISH retreat-AMERICAN victory -
*Debate on declaring indapendance
*Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
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