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The Continental Congress
- 1774 - 55 delegates came to ______________
- Came to establish a political body to ___________ American interest and _______________ G.B control.
- Philadelphia

- represent

- challenge
Delegate to the Congress
1. Major political leaders from all colonies attended including ______________.
2. "I am not a _____________, but an _______________" - Patrick Henry
1. George Washington

2. Virginian
American
Decision of the Congress
1. Call for a _________ of 13 acts passed by G.B. parliaments.
2. ___________ of all G.B. goods and no American goods sent to G.B.
3. Voted to form a _________.- groups of citizen soldiers
1. repeal

2. Boycott

3. militias
The First Battles
- Colonies were preparing for war
- _____________- groups of soldiers ready to fight in one minutes notice
- minutemen
Britain Sends Troops
1. ______________ said "blows must decide" who would rule America
1. King George
2. British general, ____________ was ordered to take away the ___________ of Massachusetts militia
3. Concord, Mass. - city where militia was storing ___________ and ____________.
2. Sir thomas
weapons

3. arms
ammunition
Alerting the Colonist
1. ___________&_____________ (leading members of Sons of Liberty) rode to _____________ to warn John Hancock & Samuel Adams that the British were coming.
1. Paul Revere
William Davies
Lexington
Fighting at Lexington & Concord
1. Fighting took place in the __________ of Lexington
2. Captain John Parker- leader of the ______________
1. center

2. minute men
3. British marched to ____________.
4. Militia fired at G.B. troops as they marched down streets
3. Concord
5. ______________, writer of the "Concord Hymn"
-"_________ heard 'round the __________."
- the battle for American's ____________ from G.B. had begun
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson
shot
world
independence
More Military Action
- ___________________- Ethan Allen & Benedict Arnold captured the British Fort ______________
- Benedict Arnold later switched to fight for the __________
- Green Mountain Boys

- Ticonderoga

- British
Building Forces
1. Committee of ______________ calls for more volunteers for the militia
2. colonial militia = ____________ men
1) correspondence

2) 20,000
The Battle of Bunker Hill
1. Colonel _____________- led militia in Boston
2. Militia was low on ______________- ordered "don't fire until you see the __________ of their eyes."
1. William Prescott

2. ammunition
whites
3. Americans had to ______________ because they ran out of ammunition
4. British victory - but learned that defeating Americans would not be _________ or ____________.
3. Bunkerhill

4. quick
easy
Choosing Sides
1. ____________- colonists who remained loyal to G.B.

2. ___________- colonist who fought G.B. for their American Independence
1. Loyalists

2. Patriots