1,200 minutemen were stationed at Bunker Hill near Boston and were low on ammo. Even though the British won the battle they had 1000 wounded or dead. That's when the British realized the war would not be easy.
Delegates from every colony met and decided to create a post office, start printing money, form realtions with Native Americans and other countries, and establish the continental army.
The British came to take away the weapons from local militias. The militias were alerted and two battles were fought, one at Lexington which the British won and another at Concord where the Americans won.
55 men from every colony except Georgia met in Phillidelphia to establish a polictal body. They drafted a staement of greivences against all acts passed since 1763. They also deciced to boycott all British goods.
In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliment closed Boston Harbor and made them pay for the tea. They also baned town meatings and forced people to shelter British soldiers in their homes.
An angry mob assembled at the front of the custumshouse started throwing things at redcoat officers. Being provoked the soldiers openfired and killed 5 people including Crispus Attucks, an African American-Native American dockworker.
In protest against the Townshend Acts, a group of women formed the Daughters of Liberty, a group that urged americans to wear homemade fabrics instead of British clothes.
Delegates from 9 colonies joined together in the stamp act congress and sent a petition to King George and Parliment asking them to repeal the stamp act.
To prevent Natve Americans from attacking Colonial Settlers, Briatin made the Appalachian Mountains the border of the colonies. This anger many Colonist who owned land west of the montains.
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