The American Revolution

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Chapter 7

• The American Revolution
• Section 1

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The Revolution BeginsThe First Continental
Congress

• 1774 met in Philadelphia
• 56 delegates none from Georgia
• Decided to continue to boycott but prepared to
  fight
• Assembled list of 10 resolutions

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Shot heard round the world

• Tensions high in Boston
• April 1775 British general Tomas Gage decides
  takes away minutemen's weapons and ammunition and
  stores in Concord
• Paul Revere and William Dawes ride the
  countryside warning about British arrival.
• Redcoats.

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2nd Continental Congress

• Did not break from England
• Formed Continental Army George Washington.
• Olive Branch Petition

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Early Battles

• Siege a situation in which soldiers surround a
  fort or city.
• Took Fort Ticonderoga
• Battle of Bunker Hill really took place at
  Breeds Hill. Redcoats(1000 casualties)

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Declaring IndependenceSection 2

• Pamphlet Common Sense Thomas Paine break
  away from England.
• People should make laws not monarchs.

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Declaring Independence

• 2nd Continental Congress Jefferson on committee
  to write a document declaring independence.
• Patriots chose to fight for independence.
• Loyalists (Tories) remained loyal to Great
  Britain.

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Primary Source

• is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be
  purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
  Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course
  others may take but as for me, give me liberty
  or give me death!