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1)many important people came to form a organization called continental congress |
delegates to the congress |
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1) one of the things the group did was repeal the 13 acts of parliament they believed it violated the laws of nature 2)they also had a boycott that no British goods would be sold to the colonies and no colonial goods are to b sold to the British 3)they also encouraged people to arm themselves and this resulted with militias |
decisions of the congress |
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1)many British troops were sent to the colonies and many more were coming they want to find and destroy all the militias ammunition 2)they late round out a large pile of ammunition was being stored in concord so they sent 700 men to destroy it |
Britain sends troops |
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paul revere were walking the streets when they saw a huge army leaving the city and they told every one they saw that the British were coming |
alerting the colonists |
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70 men had approached but the militia was waiting and the militia lost and the british moved on but by the time they had reached Boston 73 where dead and 174 wounded |
lexington and concord |
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the colonists had formed a huge militia that had 20,000 and both sides were at a stand off |
building soldiers |
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june 16 1775 the british assembled a army at the bottom of bunker hill the colonists where low on ammunition so the general said "Don't fire until you see the whites of there eyes" the british won but a t the cost of losing 1,00 soldiers |
the battle of bunker hill |
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the loyalists where the people who stayed with the british but the patriots want independence |
choosing sides |
