Transcription: When Great Britain tried to tax its American colonies in 1764, colonists protested bitterly because they did not have representatives in Britain's Parliament to speak for them. Tensions between the colonists and the British government over taxation and other measures smoldered for more than ten years. In April 1775, the conflict burst into open warfare at Lexington, Massachusetts when the British tried to seize a supply of colonial weapons. To defend the colonies, the Continental Congress raised an army and chose George Washington to be its commander-in-chief. Even after blood had been shed, m ...
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