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Continental Congress meets
-All colonies but Georgia have representatives
- Voted to send a "statement of grievances"
- Voted to boycott all British Trade
-Patrick Henery- VA rep. urged colonists to unite against Britain -
1000's of Redcoats in Boston
- General gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way.
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Midnight ride of Paul Revere
- Paul Revere rides to warm the sons of liberty in Lexington and Concord that the "British are coming... The British are coming."
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The battle of Lexington and concord
- Battle of Lexington-
- 1st battle of America 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
- AMERICA Victory
- Battle of Lexington-
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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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Battle of Bunker Hill
- fought on breed's Hill
- " Don't Fire until you see the whites of there eyes" - William Prescott -British victory ( Americans ran out of ammunition) British learned defeated Americans would not be easy.
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Second continental congress meet
- print money make post office give branch of Pearce sends troops
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Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with continental troops
-realizes men are disorganized and need discipline
- need weapons -
"Common seance" published by Tomas pain
- Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots -" Everything is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the stains, the weeping voice of nature cries, Tis time to part"
- Thomas pain, common sense
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British surrender Boston
-Washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
- WAHINGTON PUTS cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
- British retreat - American victory -
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
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The declaration independence is signed
