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The first act
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-Members of sons of liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into boston harbor
-Caused problems problems for loyalists /tories - loyalist/tory = a person in the colony who remains 'Loyal" to the king & Great britain -
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General Gage Bring Thousands of British Soliders To Boston with more on the way -
Pual Revere rides to warn the sons of LIberty in lexington and Concord that the "British are coming...The British are coming" -
Battle -1st battle of American Revolutionary war
-"Shot Heard Round the World" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
-British Victory
Battle of concord - Americans Stop British and Force them Retreat back to Boston
-American Victory -
Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture The fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
American VIctory -
-Make a Army
-Contiental froregin countires and Native Americans
-Printing there new money
-Led by George Washington -
-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 disoranized & need Discipline -Need Weapons -
-Pamphle inspires more colonists to become patriots
-"Every thing that is r9ght or Reasonable pleads for separation. The Blood of slain, the weeping voice of nature crise 'TIS Time to part" - Thomas paine, Common sense -
-Washington Beileves his army is ready & Weapons arrive
-Washington puts cannons on dorchester heights overlooking boston
-British retreat - American Victory -
-Debate on declaring inddependence
-Thomas jefferson is the primary author of the deocument -
-all 13 colonies vote yes on declaring independce
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Freedom!