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Continental Congrees meets
All colonies but Georgia has representatives
Voted to send a "statement of grievances "
Voted to Boycott all British Trade
Pattrick Henery - VA rep. urged colonits to unite aginst Britian -
Midnight ride of Pual Reserve
Paul Revere rides to warn the sons of liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming... The Britsh are coming -
Battles of lexington & concord
Battle of Lexington -
-1st battle of American revolutionary war
-"shot heard round fo world " -Ralph Waldo Emerson Victory
Battle of concord -
-Amercians stop British and force them to treat back to boston
-Amercian victory -
Caputure of fort Ticonderoge
Bendefict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
American Victory -
Second Continental Congress Meet
Print $$$$
Set up a post office
created a continental army led by George Washington
sent olive branch asking the king to protect their rights
-king hire 30,000 hessians soldiers in respnces -
Battle of Bunker Hill
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. -
"Common Sense " Publish by Thomas Paine
pamphlet inspire more colonists to become patriots
"Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slains, the weeping vioce of nature cries, 'Tis time to Part " -Thomas Paine,commone sense -
British Surrender Boston
Washington belives his army is ready & weapons arrive
Washington puts cannsons on Dorcherster Hieghts overlooking Boston
British retreat - Americans Victory -
Second Continental Congress Meet Again
Debate on declaring independence
Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document -
Second Continental Congress votes for Independence
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The delcartion of Independence is signed