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    Robert Gross shows the significant role of Concord, Massachusetts, in the fight for independence through the perspective of the common person, in his book, The Minutemen and their World. Gross presents Concord as a town that played a great role in the revolution, while altering the community forever. Concord life is explained before, during, and after, “A shot heard ‘round the world.” Although Gross supports his ideas with numerous sources of evidence, he states that history is not simply an…

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    Northeast, Concord is a town of rich tradition. In Perfectly Miserable, the people of Concord seem to cling most to the traditions of religion, frugality, and the preservation of history. Despite having an irreverent tone regarding church and God, Sarah focuses on faith in Concord a great deal. She comments that a clear majority of the community attend religious service, from Catholic mass to Unitarian service. Sarah claims “God was dead for all the friends I had left in New York, but in…

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    of the people living in and around Concord, Massachusetts; a colonial city outside of Boston with a vast amount of problems and troubles. The Minutemen and Their World provides a social history, which is key to understanding the views of the common people. There are three major topics that can be pulled from the main theme of analyzing the lives of the townspeople: Farming, Family, and Politics. The book uses a “bottom-up” approach of writing by first…

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    think the most important revolutionary war is the battle of lexington and concord. I think it's the most important revolutionary war because, it boosted the confidence for the war ahead. The war ahead was the American Revolutionary war in 1775-1783. The battle of Lexington and Concord was on April 19,1775. British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and ammunition the colonists had stored in the town of Concord, just outside of Boston. They also planned to arrest Samuel…

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    In Concord in particular, the growth of religious zeal was influenced by Daniel Bliss. He reinvigorated religion so completely that, “for a time, religious meetings were held every day of the week. And in October 1741, the great English evangelist George Whitfield…

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    Town Gathering Essay

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    This document details the request from many townsmen of Concord to put an article for the erection of new stables on public land, specifically the Common, upon the Sabbath in the warrant for the town meeting for the month of May. This document was written April 10, 1773, one month before the desired request would be discussed at town meeting. It is addressed directly to the selectmen of the town of Concord and signed “your humble servants” as a sign of respect, and has the signatures of several…

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    (2008) "Battle at Lexington Green, 1775: The British Perspective," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2010). "A British Officer at Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775 - American Memory Timeline- Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources." Library of Congress. (April 1877). “The Holy Bible, King James Version”. Cambridge Edition: 1769; King James Bible Online, (2017) Theobald, Mary. "The Monstrous…

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    To begin with, we might all know Paul Revere as the hero that rode into Concord warning everyone that the “Redcoats are coming”, but that never happened at all. In the deposition, Revere got captured by British officers before he arrived at Concord. “We attempted to get through them, but they kept before us…. They put us into a building.” In addition, in the poem, Revere’s goal was to warn everyone in Lexington and Concord about the British, but in the deposition Revere’s objective was to warn…

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    rushed, and or because of unfriendly attitudes from the staff. Four years ago, I came across Concord Dental, a small private dental office in Lovejoy, Georgia. I decided to give them a try, and I have been with them ever since. This is the main reason why I decided to interview the recently promoted office manager, Vanessa, on the office’s marketing techniques. From previous experiences, walking into Concord Dental is like walking into your second home. The office achieves this by using what is…

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    Summary Of Johnny Tremain

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    In the book Johnny Tremain there were a bunch of events because this book is based on the American Revolution. Johnny lived and was in some of the events. It starts off on July 2, 1773. Johnny was an orphan, his father left when he was little and his mother died when johnny was little. So he was adopted by the Laphams and became a silversmith and worked for them for 7 years and got injured (he burnt his hand). So he went to a family to see if he could live with him because he was broke, Jonathan…

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