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Revolution Begins
Boston Tea Party
-tax on tea still remained ineffect
-Monopoly on tea had beengranted to British TeaCompany
-Dec. 1773 colonists raidedBoston harbor and destroyedthe tea and burned the ships
-resulted in more troops beingsent to the colonies
Intolerable Acts
-Parliament passes Coercive Act topunish Boston
-Colonists called it the Intolerableacts
-closed Boston harbor
-suspended basic civil rights
-housed troops in peoples homes
-Committees of Correspondencebegin
1st Continental Congress
-Committees of Correspondencethis group had been communicatingwith other colonies
-militias begin to formminutemen
-after Intolerable Acts they call fora meeting
-late 1774 1st meeting held inPhiladelphia
-discussed rights of colonies
-agreed to meet again in 1 year
Lexington and Concord
-April 1775
-British try to seize weapons storedin Concord
-Paul Revere, William Dawes, SamuelPrescott warn colonists
-minutemen met British at Lexington
-shots fired and colonists killed -”shot heard around the world“
-colonist conduct guerilla battlealong road to Concord
2nd Continental Congress
-May 1775
-called for an army and appointedGeorge Washington as leader
-some talk of compromise and someof independence
Bunker Hill-June 1775
-Colonists take hill overlookingBoston (Breed’s Hill)
-British charge the hill 3 times untilcolonists run out of ammo
-lots of casualties
-deadliest battle of war
-proved colonists could compete withthe British army in certainsituations
Olive Branch-July 1775
-2nd Continental Congresssends King George a petitionto return to the peace ofthe past
-he refuses the petition andurges the rebellion put down
Common Sense-many colonists had loyalties thatwere strong to Britain
-Loyalists
-Patriots
-Common Sense-pamphlet that urges independencefor the colonies
-Thomas Paine
-Jan. 1776
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