HISTORY 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Green Mountain Boys, Continental Army, George Galloway
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12 of 13 colonies" reps (not georgia): john adams, samuel adams, washington, patrick. : henry: i am not a virginian, but an american. and ( 75) give me liberty or give me death. Call to halt trade w br & w. indies; to be enforced by committees of safety. If rejected, they will hold a 2nd congress. Committees w farmers, artisans, laborers; some elite leaders (e. g. , j adams) feared and opposed them; they became new sources of gov"t, shifting power from br; making a new. T jefferson (virginia): americans a free people claiming their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. Responding to the boston tea party, be sent in 4k more troops. April 1775 they marched to concord, mass to disarm american colonial troops, who were warned by riders from boston, including paul revere. Patriot militias then laid siege to boston, surrounding it on 3 sides.
