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Prepare for Notes and Discussion

Hand in GR Packet and Lexington Map into 2 piles on front table

So You Want a Revolution?So You Want a Revolution?

After the First Shot…After the First Shot…

Colonial Militia continue to gather around Boston

Continental Congress alarmed at bloodshed

Colonists DividedColonists Divided

Loyalist v. Patriot

Fighting ContinuesFighting Continues

Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain BoysBenedict ArnoldFort TiconderogaMay 1775

A Call to ArmsA Call to Arms

Sent out by Committees of Correspondence

Bunker HillBunker Hill

June 16, 1775

Battle of Battle of Bunker Hill:Bunker Hill:June, 1775June, 1775

• British want to push MA militia off strategic hill

Effect…Effect… British won the Battle of Bunker Hill

but lost more than a 1,000 soldiers Militia surround British in Boston

SIEGE

Washington Reaches BostonWashington Reaches Boston

July 1775 Training the Army Recaptures Boston

using artillery from Ticonderoga

British To Retreat to Halifax

The Second Continental The Second Continental CongressCongress

May 10 1775

Who Were the Delegates?Who Were the Delegates?

Ben FranklinBen Franklin

John HancockJohn Hancock

                                                                       

                         

Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson

John and Sam AdamsJohn and Sam Adams

Roger ShermanRoger Sherman

John Dickinson & Thomas John Dickinson & Thomas MifflinMifflin

Caesar RodneyCaesar Rodney

The Early MinutesThe Early Minutes

12 / 13 Colonies Print Money Post Office Continental Army

Olive Branch PetitionOlive Branch Petition

Peace Protect Rights

Response of crown -30,000 Hessians

Common SenseCommon Sense

Thomas Paine ~ It is common sense that the colonies should want independence from England

Proposing IndependenceProposing Independence

Richard Henry Lee

3 Man Committee to draft a document– Adams– Franklin– Jefferson

The Declaration of The Declaration of IndependenceIndependence

April 1776 July 2, 1776 July 4, 1776 Aug 2, 1776

Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence ActivityActivity

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation

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Take Out Declaration Worksheet and work on for 10 minutes

The Declaration of The Declaration of IndependenceIndependence

Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence ActivityActivity

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation

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