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A Call to Arms/ Declaring Indepence
- All colonies but Geogia have representatives
- voted to send a " statement of grievances" and voted to boycott all british trade
- Patrick Henry was a VA rep. He urged colonists to unite against Britain
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1000,s of Redcoats in Boston
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Midnight ride of Paul Revere
Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the " British are coming... The britsh are coming." He was a messenger. -
Battles of Lexinton & Concord
- Battle of Lexington
- 1st battle of American Revolutinary War
- " shot heard round the world " - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Bitish victory
- Battle of Concord -Americans stopped the british and focred them to retreat -American victory They both won at seprate times
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Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
- Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen Capture the fort
- Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
- American victory
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Second Continental Congress meet
- Print $$$
- Set up post office
- Created Continental Army led by George Wasington
- Sent olive Branch asking King to protect their rights -King hires 30,00 Hessians Solidiers in response
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Battle of Bunker Hill
- Fought on Breed's Hill
- William Prescott told the soilders " Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"
- British victory due to Americans running out of ammunition
- Britsh learned defeating the Americans would not be easy
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Washinton arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
- Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
- Lack of weapons
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Common sense published by Thomas Paine
- pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots
- " Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voicd of nature cries, TIS TIOME TO PART" -Thomas Paine Common Sense
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British Surrender Boston
- Washinton believes his army is ready & weapons arrives
- washington puts cannons on Dorechester Heights overlooking Boston
- British retreat - American victory
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Second Continental Congress meet again
- Debate on declaring independence *Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document
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Second Continental Congress votes for independence
- All 13 colonies vote YES on delclaring independence
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The declaration of independence is sighed
