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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 -
-General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Bosten 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
- 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 to retreat back to Boston AMERICAN victory
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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 continental army led by George Washington
-sent olive branch asking king to protect their rights
- king hires 30,000 Hessians soldiers in response -
-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. -
- realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
- need weapons
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- pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots -" everything 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 -
- all 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence
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