The road to Lexington and Concord

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The road to Lexington and Concord
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In this section you will learn that tensions
between Britain and the colonies led to armed
conflict in Massachusetts.
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The following colonial actions led to the
Declaration of Independence
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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.
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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.
• Committees of correspondence were banned.

• British troops would be allowed to be housed
  wherever necessary.
• Parliament appointed General Thomas Gage,
  governor of Massachusetts.

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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were repealed.
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First ContinentalCongress
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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.
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John Hancock
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QUICK CHECK
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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
• 2) Declaratory Acts

• 3) Intolerable Acts
• 4) Insufferable Acts

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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.

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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

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______ was put in charge of the Committee of
Safety, which had the power to call out the
militia.

• 3) James Otis
• 4) John Hancock

• 1) Samuel Adams
• 2) John Adams

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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.
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Patrick Henry
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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!
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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.
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John Hancock

• Samuel Adams

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Paul Revere
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Listen my children and you shall hearOf the
midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth
of April, in Seventy-fiveHardly a man is now
aliveWho remembers that famous day and year.

• -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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.
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Minutemen
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Those who supported the British were called
Loyalists. Those who sided with the rebels were
called Patriots.
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• 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.

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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
• 2) James Otis

• 3) John Hancock
• 4) Samuel Adams

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______ and others spread the news about British
troop movements.

• 3) Paul Revere
• 4) John Adams

• 1) John Hancock
• 2) James Otis

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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

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Those who supported the British during the
Revolutionary War were called

• 1) Minutemen
• 2) Separatists

• 3) Patriots
• 4) Loyalists

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Those who sided with the rebels during the
Revolutionary War were called

• 3) Tories
• 4) Suffragists

• 1) Patriots
• 2) Loyalists

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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!