THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The Road to war

·         Provincial congress – new governing body for SC – met for the first time in Jan. 1775

The First Blows

·         In Massachusetts the militia was called minutemen because they were ready on a minute’s notice

·         Battle of Lexington – a soldier yelled “fire!” and many were dead and injured. Only made the colonists angrier instead of scaring them off.

·         Battle of Concord – “shot heard round ...


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