Chapter 4 Section 1

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Chapter 4 Section 1

• British Actions
• And
• American Reactions

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• British Action
• Intolerable Acts

• American Reaction
• First Continental Congress
• (continued boycott of British goods, prepare for
  war, Declaration of Rights)

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• British Action
• British troops try to seize Patriot supplies in
  Concord

• American Reaction
• Try to stop British at Lexington, hide weapons
  and supplies, British forced to retreat due to
  number of causalities.

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• British Actions
• King George III refused the address the
  Declaration of Rights

• American Reaction attempt at a Republican
  government in the colonies, tell colonial
  authorities to create state constitutions, put
  together Continental Army, Olive Branch Petition

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• British Actions
• King George looked to punish the colonies for
  such protest

• American Reaction
• Continental Army takes control of Fort
  Ticonderoga (NY)
• Continental Army begins to fight for control of
  Boston
• (Bunker Hill and Dorchester Hill)

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Important Early Battles

• Fort Ticonderoga, NY
• Benedict Arnold and 400 men capture British fort
  and supplies
• Important because the colonists were in desperate
  need of more weapons and supplies

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Important Early Battles

• Bunker Hill, Boston, MA
• 2,400 British vs. 1,600 Patriots
• Colonists fought well until they ran out of
  ammunition
• Patriots retreated but British lost more soldiers.

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Important Early Battles

• Dorchester Heights, Boston, MA
• General Washington led Con. Army
• Colonel Henry Knox brought weapons from Fort
  Ticonderoga (300 miles away)
• March 1776, British retreat from Boston.