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Declaring Independence
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• Tried to negotiate
• Patrick Henry
• “Give me liberty or give
me death!”
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Thomas Jefferson
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Plantation owner
Military experience
Bunker Hill
Colonel William
Prescott
“Do not fire until you
see the whites of their
eyes.”
Ran out of
ammunition
Continental Army
George Washington
Olive Branch Petition
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Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Committee of Five
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
Robert Livingston
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Declaration of
Independence
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• “Pen of the Revolution”
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