Transcript The road to Lexington and Concorde

The road to Lexington
and Concord
In this section you will learn
that tensions between Britain
and the colonies led to armed
conflict in Massachusetts.
The following colonial actions led to
the Declaration of Independence:
First Continental Congress, 1774
Battle of Lexington and
Concord, 1775
Second Continental Congress, 1775
Declaration of Independence, 1776
In 1774, Parliament passed a
series of laws to punish the
Massachusetts colony for the
Boston Tea Party. The
colonists called these laws, the
Intolerable Acts.
Provisions of the Intolerable Acts:
• Boston Harbor would be
closed until the colonist paid
for the destroyed tea.
• British officials accused of
crimes in the colonies would
stand trial in Britain.
• British troops would
be allowed to be
housed wherever
necessary.
• Parliament
appointed General
• Committees of
Thomas Gage,
correspondence were banned.
governor of
Massachusetts.
In September 1774, delegates
from all the colonies except
Georgia met in Philadelphia.
This First Continental
Congress voted to ban all trade
with Britain until the
Intolerable Acts were repealed.
First
Continental
Congress
When trade boycotts failed to
repeal the Intolerable Acts,
some colonists prepared to
fight. John Hancock was put in
charge of the Committee of
Safety, which had the power to
call out the militia.
John
Hancock
FOR UNDERSTANDING
In 1774, Parliament passed a series of
laws to punish the Massachusetts
colony for the Boston Tea Party. The
colonists called these laws,
the______.
• 1) Boston Massacre
• 3) Intolerable Acts
• 2) Declaratory Acts
• 4) Insufferable Acts
Provisions of the Intolerable Acts
included all the following except:
• 1) Boston Harbor
would be closed until
the colonist paid for
the destroyed tea.
• 2) Committees of
correspondence were
banned.
• 3) British troops would
be allowed to be housed
wherever necessary.
• 4) Parliament appointed
General George
Washington, governor of
Massachusetts.
The meeting of delegates from all the
colonies except Georgia in September
1774 was called:
• 1) the American
Revolution
• 2) the Boston
Massacre
• 3) the Boston Tea Party
• 4) the First Continental
Congress
______ was put in charge of the
Committee of Safety, which had the
power to call out the militia.
• 1) Samuel Adams
• 3) James Otis
• 2) John Adams
• 4) John Hancock
Although most colonists believed
that war could be avoided, in
March 1775, Patrick Henry
delivered his most famous
speech to the Virginia House of
Burgesses which ended with the
words “give me liberty or give
me death.”
Patrick
Henry
Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there
is no peace. The war is actually begun! The
next gale that sweeps from the north will
bring to our ears the clash of resounding
arms! Our brethren are already in the field!
Why stand we here idle? What is it that
gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is
life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be
purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what
course others may take; but as for me, give
me liberty or give me death!
British spies had learned that the
Massachusetts militia was storing
arms and ammunition at Concord.
They also heard that Samuel
Adams and John Hancock were in
Lexington, and sent troops to arrest
them. Paul Revere and others
spread the news about the British
troop movements.
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
Paul Revere
Listen my children and you shall
hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul
Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in
Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day
and year.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nearly 4000 Minutemen and
militiamen defeated the British
regulars at Lexington and
Concord on the morning of
April 19, 1775. The war for
American independence had
begun.
Minutemen
Those who supported the
British were called Loyalists.
Those who sided with the rebels
were called Patriots.
Loyalists were British North American
colonists who remained loyal subjects of
the British crown during the American
Revolution. They were also called Tories,
King's Men, or Royalists. Their colonial
opponents, who supported the Revolution,
were called Patriots, Whigs, Rebels,
Congress Men, or, in view of their loyalty
to the new United States of America, just
Americans.
FOR UNDERSTANDING
Although most colonists believed that
war could be avoided, in March 1775,
______ delivered his most famous
speech to the Virginia House of
Burgesses urging action.
• 1) Patrick Henry
• 3) John Hancock
• 2) James Otis
• 4) Samuel Adams
______ and others spread the news
about British troop movements.
• 1) John Hancock
• 3) Paul Revere
• 2) James Otis
• 4) John Adams
Nearly 4000 Minutemen and
militiamen defeated the British
regulars at ______ on the morning of
April 19, 1775.
• 1) Yorktown and
Saratoga
• 2) Jamestown
• 3) Bunker Hill
• 4) Lexington and
Concord
Those who supported the British
during the Revolutionary War were
called:
• 1) Minutemen
• 3) Patriots
• 2) Separatists
• 4) Loyalists
Those who sided with the rebels
during the Revolutionary War were
called:
• 1) Patriots
• 3) Tories
• 2) Loyalists
• 4) Suffragists
Which of the following is a quote
from Patrick Henry?
• 1) “Four score and seven
years ago our fathers
brought forth on this
continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the
proposition that all men
are created equal.”
• 2) “Give me liberty or
give me death!”
• 3) “All men are endowed
by their Creator with
certain unalienable
rights, among these are
life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.”
• 4) “Taxation without
representation is
tyranny!”