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| 1st Continental Congress | meeting of over 50 delegates representing 12 colonies assembled in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia. |
| Who didn't have delegates at the 1st continental congress> | Georgia |
| Two main reasons for 1 cc | Protect colonists' rights as englishmen and settle disputes with england. |
| results of 1 cc | mass. should not obey coercive acts, resist laws at all costs even if force is needed, boycott british goods, arrange for 2cc in 1775. |
| 2nd continental congress purpose | create an army of the colonies (continental army), appoint a person to lead the army (George WAshington), create 13 new state governments, create a government for all the new states together: United States, declare independence from england: Declaration of independence. |
| How many colonists and british were killed in lexington? | 8 colonists and 1 british |
| how did the minutemen fight in concord? | they hid behind trees and attacked from all sides. |
| how many british were killed/wounded/missing in concord? | over 70 killed, 200 wounded or missing. |
| what is a minutemen? | a colonist who pledged to be ready to fight on a minute's notice just before and during the revolutionary war. |
| who alerted lexington that the british were coming? | dr. prescott, paul revere, and william dawes |
| who were the british after? | samuel adams and john hancock. |
| how many minutemen were at lexington? | 70 |
| how many minutemen were at concord? | 300 |
| why would there never be able to be a peaceful agreement? | because many british soldiers were killed and the damage was already done. it lead to the revolutionary war? |
