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Continental Congress Meets
-All of the colonies have officials to make decisions for them but Georgia does not and does their own thing.
-Wrote a letter to Britain telling them that they needed to treat the colonists better.
-The colonists decided to stop trading with Britain.
-Patrick Henry got the colonists to get together and go against Britain. -
1,000's of redcoats in Boston
-General Gage takes thousands of soldiers to Boston with thousands more on the way to fight. -
Midnight ride of Paul Revere
- Paul Revere rides to Lexington and Concord to let the Sons of Liberty know that the British are on the way.
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Battles of Lexington & Concord
Battle of Lexington
-America's first war
-The British won the war Battle of concord
-America wins the war and makes the British go back to Boston.
-America wins the war