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Massachusetts was the firebrand of the American colonies
demanding independence from the British Crown.
In 1768,
Samuel Adams wrote a statement,
approved by the Massachusetts House of
Representatives, which attacked Parliament's
persistence in taxing the colonies without
proper representation, and which called for
unified resistance by all the colonies. In 1774
British troops began to fortify
Boston, and
seized ammunition belonging to the colony of
Massachusetts. Special groups of militia, known
as
Minute Men, were organized to be ready for
instant action. In 1775 British troops planned
to destroy American ammunition at
Concord. When
the Boston Committee of Safety learned of this
plan, it sent
Paul Revere and
William Dawes to
alert the countryside and gather the Minute Men.
On April 19, Minute Men and British troops met
at
Lexington, where a shot from a stray British
gun lead to more British firing. The Americans
only fired a few shots; several Americans were
killed. The British marched on to Concord and
destroyed some ammunition, but soon found the
countryside swarming with militia. At the end of
the day, many were dead on both sides, thus the
American War for Independence began. On February
6, 1788, Massachusetts became the 6th state to
ratify the
U.S. Constitution.
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