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Professors clashed with redcoats -
Mothers of sons of liberty dumped 340 chests of tea and into Boston Harbor. -
-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. -
-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
-!st battle of American Revolutionary war
-"Shot heard round the world"-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-British Victory
Battle of Concord
-Americans, 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 cannons
- AMERICAN Victory
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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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-Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
-Need weapons -
-Phamhlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
-"Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the stain , the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART - Thomas paine, common sense -
- Washington believes his army is ready, and weapons arrive
- Washington puts out 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 -
-All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence -
