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Second Continental Congress
• Americans didn’t want to break from Britain
• Wrote the Olive Branch Petition to King George III
• The petition asked for English Rights
• The King didn’t even read it!
• The king ordered more troops to America
• George Washington was named commander of the Continental Army
Prohibitory Act
• Passed by Parliament
• Cut off all British trade to the colonies and they wouldn’t protect them anymore
• Ethan Allen led the Green Mountain Boys to capture British Fort Ticonderoga.
• Green Mountain Boys – unit raised to protect New Hampshire
• Benedict Arnold was headed out to do the same thing
• Both served as commanders and took Fort Ticonderoga without firing a single shot
• General Gage and the Americans had control of Bunker Hill outside of Boston
• William Howe and 3,000 British attacked the hill THREE TIMES
• The Americans ran out of ammunition on the third try and retreated.
• After Bunker Hill, Britain hired Hessians to help with the war effort.
• They were German hired soldiers called mercenaries
• Colonel Henry Knox hauled the cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester Heights outside of Boston.
• The Americans had the high ground and the British left Boston.