Steps+Toward+Independence--Shots+Heard+Around+the+World

Brian Kim & Youngha Woo



 -held in Philadelphia. 1774.  -delegations consisted of many notable leaders (Samuel Adams, George Washington)  -largely in response to the Coercive Acts  -often did not see things eye to eye—many different opinions  -opinions ranging from alliance to confrontation with Britain  -had trouble getting majority votes  -due to differences in geography, customs, values, and economy  -boycott British goods to enforce nonimporation  -committee free from the royal government  -distinguish “friends from foes” of nonimportation   -Colonists questioned the power of Parliament to restrict colonists’ rights  -Actions an affront to Parliament  -Created further hostility between the two  -Arguable the first time the colonists “were” the government  -Steps towards the American Revolutionary War
 * <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕">Step Towards Independence **
 * <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕">twelve colonies form the First Continental Congress
 * <span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕">delegates create the “Association”
 * **<span style="font-family: 맑은 고딕">Importance: **

**Shots Heard Around the World**
- Eastern Massachusetts farm villages: Lexington and Concord - 1775, April 18 General Gage sent troops to Boston to seize rebel supplies. - Paul Revere (Silversmith and an active patriot) warns colonists about red coats. - Lexington militias decides to remain in the village - April 19, while on the road to Concord, British soldiers fired and killed 8 Americans in confusion. - The incident quickly enacted minutemen to gather up at Concord. (special companies of Massachusetts militia prepared to respond instantly to military mergencies) - Red coats returned to Boston after finding nothing important in Concord. - June 17, colonial militiamen fought British troops known as the battle of Bunker Hill. - British troops managed to seize the hill, but suffered 40% casualties in return.