![]() In October Patriot leaders called for a Provincial Congress in Massachusetts. The previous summer British warships closed Boston Harbor, Royal Governor, General Thomas Gage, tasked with implementing the wildly unpopular Massachusetts Government Act, also dismissed the elected Massachusetts legislature, the Great and General Court. In the days, weeks, and months leading to April 19, 1775, tensions across the colony of Massachusetts reached a boiling point.
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