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Yankee Doodle Dandy
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Sons of Liberty
• Motto– Join or Die
• Broke into the homes of the tax collectors and beat them
• Burned the hated tax stamps.
• Americans did all that they could to rebel against the British.
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party
The First Continental Congress
The Minutemen
“The shot heard ‘round the World”
Bunker Hill
Who would win?
• Government strongest in world
• lots of money• army strongest in the
world• many officers• Navy ruled the seas• fighting 3000 miles
away form home
• Government did not yet exist
• no money• army made up of
citizen-soldiers • few officers• no navy• fighting at home -
British American
Resources
• http://www.mce.k12tn.net/revolutionary_war/American_revolution.htm
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