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10 Cards in this Set
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2nd Continental Congress?
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May 1775/12 of the 13 colonies were represented/decided how to act now that open hostilities had taken place/decided not to break away from UK but to fund a military.
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Olive Branch Petition?
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a peace request named for the olive branch/before Richard Penn could give the treaty to King George 3 the fighting spread, canceling the petition.
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2nd Continental Congress?
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May 1775/12 of the 13 colonies were represented/decided how to act now that open hostilities had taken place/decided not to break away from UK but to fund a military.
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Lexington?
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April 18, 1775/"The British are Coming/Shot heard around the world.
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Olive Branch Petition?
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a peace request named for the olive branch/before Richard Penn could gve the treaty to King George 3 the fighting spread, canceling the petition.
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First Continental Congress?
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56 colonial delegates that met in Penn/The only state not represented was Georgia/many people involved in protest groups attended/Chose the best way to respond to the crisis in Ma, and agreed they should still boycott Britain.
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Lord Dunmore's Proclamation?
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Drew African American slaves to the British side/willing to fight in exchange for freedom.
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Minutemen?
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Hired British soliders who were ready to fight on a minutes notice.
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Concord?
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The British mached to Concord where the militia had stored their muskets/the British started to retreat and they lost 250 men on the march back.
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Fort Ticonderoga?
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British Held/May 10 colonists snuck up and quickly took the fort/Guns, and Cannons.
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