The First Continental Congressseptember 1774 Philadelphia, PA

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

The First Continental CongressSeptember 1774 Philadelphia, PA All colonies except Georgia attended. 1. Delegates voted to stop trading with England until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. 2. Train Colonial militia 3. Meet in 1 year March 1775 Virginia lawyer Patrick Henry encouraged the Virginia militia to prepare for war. He ended a famous speech with the words, “give me liberty, or give me death!” Paul Revere learned of the Lexington and Concord British plans to destroy the Patriot’s weapons storage in Concord. He also heard the British may try to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott rode towards Concord to warn the militia. The true story The route to Concord Use the map on page 288 to draw the route Revere, Dawes, and Prescott took to Concord. April 19, 1775: The Battle of Lexington Minutemen answer the call to arms. British soldiers surround the Patriots. A shot fires. “The shot heard round the world.” 8 Minutemen killed, 9 injured, 1 British soldier injured. The British continue marching to Concord. Lexington and Concord April 19, 1775: The Battle of Concord When they arrived in Concord, the British soldiers searched for weapons, but did not find any. The women of Concord hid the military supplies in fields and barns all over The Patriots soon outnumbered the British and won the battle. British troops retreated to Boston. town. The revolution had begun! June 16th and 17th, 1775: Bunker Hill The Patriots goal was to force the British to leave Boston. Men worked all night long to build a fort on Breed’s Hill. When the British awoke the next morning, they were shocked to see the fort. The British attack with more than 2,000 soldiers. Breed and Bunker Hill British ships fired on the fort and soldiers marched up the hill. After three attacks, the British captured Breed’s Hill. About half of their fighting force were killed or wounded, while only 400 Patriots had died. Battle of Bunker Hill Even though they lost, the Patriots were proud of how they had fought and stood up to the British Army..

Copy Link

Recommended publications

Vanguards of Empire ANU Library Copy
Vanguards of Empire: the lives of William Dawes, Watkin Tench and George Worgan. A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University. Robert Michael Clarke Canberra September 2015 1 Unless otherwise indicated, this is my own original work. Robert Michael Clarke September 2015 2 Acknowledgements I am grateful to the professionalism and assistance received in the many libraries and repositories I visited in Australia and Britain. The librarians from the William Cullen Library at the University of Witwatersrand were prompt and efficient in providing copies of some important correspondence. The staff at the Museum of English Rural Life Library at the University of Reading willingly agreed to fit me in during a day when research facilities were normally closed. I was impressed with the cheerful assistance and encouragement I received from the many county record offices and history centres I visited in Britain. Dr. Ann Coats of the Naval Dockyards Society, Portsmouth was quick to provide information requested. Christine & Colin Edwards, and Anthony Wood, Cornish historians, provided encouragement and guidance and were warm and generous with their hospitality. I will always be grateful that I was able to study History at the University of New England at the end of the 1980s. Alan Atkinson, David Kent and the other members of the team made a lasting impression but especially, the late Norma Townsend. Shortly after enrolling for this degree I read many articles and blog entries about the loneliness of the doctoral student. There is much truth in that, but for me it was alleviated considerably by the encouragement, advice, general support and wisdom I received from my thesis supervisors.
[Show full text]
Battles of Lexington and Concord Battles of Lexington and Concord
Battles of Lexington and Concord Battles of Lexington and Concord In April, 1775, British soldiers marched out of Boston to seize a In April, 1775, British soldiers marched out of Boston to seize a stockpile of colonial weapons and arrest members of the Sons of stockpile of colonial weapons and arrest members of the Sons of Liberty. Warned by Paul Revere and William Dawes that “The Redcoats Liberty. Warned by Paul Revere and William Dawes that “The Redcoats are coming!,” about seventy Minutemen stood in Lexington ready to face are coming!,” about seventy Minutemen stood in Lexington ready to face about 250 British soldiers. No one knows who fired first, but seven about 250 British soldiers. No one knows who fired first, but seven Americans were killed before British soldiers moved past Lexington to Americans were killed before British soldiers moved past Lexington to Concord. In Concord, they were met with more Minutemen who Concord. In Concord, they were met with more Minutemen who fought back until the British retreated. Americans regrouped and fought back until the British retreated. Americans regrouped and continued firing on the British throughout their twenty mile march back continued firing on the British throughout their twenty mile march back to Boston. Lexington and Concord are considered the first battles of to Boston. Lexington and Concord are considered the first battles of the American Revolution. American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson described the American Revolution. American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson described this event as “the shot heard round the world.” this event as “the shot heard round the world.” Directions: Directions: 1) Glue this into your journal.
[Show full text]
The Famous Ride of Paul Revere К
к The Famous Ride of Paul Revere Paul Revere loved his children and grandchildren. (He had at least 51 grandchildren!) He called them his “little lambs.” Imagine that you are sitting with Paul Revere and some of those grandchildren, hearing about the famous ride of April 18, 1775. Listen! The British were going to march, our spies told us. Soon, they would cross the Charles River. From there they could capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who were in Lexington planning the fight against the British. Then they could march on to capture our patriot weapons, stored in Concord. Adams and Hancock had to be warned. The townspeople had to be warned, too, so that they could defend our weapons. The Regulars—the British soldiers—were coming, and people needed to know! I had a plan already. First, I hurried to Christ Church, to give a warning to those waiting across the river. We had agreed on a code: one lantern would be lit in the church steeple window if the British were to leave Boston by land, two lanterns would be lit if they were to leave by the river. Light two lanterns, I told my friend who waited in the steeple. Two friends were waiting to row me across the river to Charlestown. But in the excitement, I had forgotten my spurs! Then I noticed that my little dog had followed me. I wrote a quick note to your grandmother, tied it around the dog’s neck, and sent the dog home. The dog returned shortly—carrying my spurs.
[Show full text]
What Actually Happened on the Midnight Ride?
Revere House Radio Episode 4 Revisit the Ride: What Actually Happened on the Midnight Ride? Welcome in to another episode of Revere House Radio, Midnight Ride Edition. I am your host Robert Shimp, and we appreciate you listening in as we continue to investigate different facets of Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride leading up to Patriots Day in Boston on Monday April 20. Today, April 18, we will commemorate Paul Revere’s ride, which happened 245 years ago today, by answering the question of what actually happened that night? Previously, we have discussed the fact that he was a known and trusted rider for the Sons of Liberty, and that he did not shout “The British Are Coming!” along his route, but rather stopped at houses along the way and said something to the effect of: “the regulars are coming out.” With these points established, we can get into the nuts and bolts of the evening- how did the night unfold for Paul Revere? As we discussed on Thursday, Paul Revere and Dr. Joseph Warren had known for some time that a major action from the British regulars was in the offing at some point in April 1775- and on April 18, Revere and Warren’s surveillance system of the British regulars paid off. Knowing an action was imminent, Warren called Revere to his house that night to give him his orders- which in Paul Revere’s recollections- were to alert John Hancock and Samuel Adams that the soldiers would be marching to the Lexington area in a likely attempt to seize them.
[Show full text]
Becoming Americans
BECOMING AMERICANS The Fourth of July is a national holiday honoring the day that the Declaration of Independence was signed. On that day the colonists informed the King of England that they were no longer under British control. There is another very important date in American history and that date is April 19th. Some historians believe that on that date in 1775 the British colonists changed their nationality and became Americans. Tensions were running high in the Colonies, especially in Massachusetts. The British troops were informed that weapons and ammunition were being stored in the area of Concord and they set out to destroy them. Paul Revere, Samuel Prescott, and several other riders set out to warn the colonists. The towns in the area were alerted and the signal was given for the militia to gather. Each town had their own group and they referred to themselves as Minutemen since they were to gather within minutes. In the Town of Acton, Captain Isaac Davis assembled his men. The militia consisted of farmers, shopkeepers, and even the schoolmaster. They were especially proud of the fact that each man in Acton not only had a musket but also a bayonet. This was because Captain Davis was a blacksmith and gunsmith. He made sure all his men were prepared. They marched to Concord to meet with the militia from other towns. At the Concord line Davis told his men if they wanted to leave, now was the time. Not one man left and they marched the seven miles to the tune of the White Cockade.
[Show full text]
Congressional Record—Senate S5386
S5386 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE April 11, 2003 (c) EFFECT ON ENTITLEMENT.—Nothing in from oral and pharyngeal cancers each The Samuel D. Harris National Mu- this Act shall be construed to change the year. seum of Dentistry has been endorsed by total acreage of land to which Newtok is en- The report called for the develop- the American Dental Association, the titled under ANCSA. ment of a National Oral Health Plan, American Association of Dental (d) EFFECT ON NEWTOK LANDS.—The Newtok Lands shall be included in the and recommended that actions be Schools, Oral Health America, the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge as of taken to ‘‘change perceptions regard- Pierre Fauchard Academy, the Amer- the date of acceptance of the conveyance of ing oral health and disease so that oral ican College of Dentists, the Inter- those lands from Newtok, except that resi- health becomes an accepted component national College of Dentists, and the dents of the Village of Newtok, Alaska, shall of general health.’’ By designating an American Academy of the History of retain access rights to subsistence resources official national museum and learning Dentistry. I ask unanimous consent on those public lands as guaranteed under center dedicated to dentistry, this leg- ANILCA section 811 (16 U.S.C. 3121), and to that the text of a letter from the subsistence uses, such as traditional subsist- islation takes an important step to- American Dental Association in sup- ence fishing, hunting and gathering, con- ward the achievement of this goal. port of this legislation be printed in sistent with ANILCA section 803 (16 U.S.C.
[Show full text]
The American Revolution Hero Biographies
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION HERO BIOGRAPHIES RISE OF THE PATRIOTS PREMIERES MONDAY, DECEMBER 15 AT 9/8C Joseph Warren In his time, Boston physician Joseph Warren was a nationally known figure and hero of the Revolutionary War yet today qualifies as America’s least remembered founding father. He was a central organizer in the earliest years of the Revolution, a gifted orator, and leader of a Boston spy ring. It was Warren who sent Paul Revere on his famous midnight ride. He was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill at the outset of the war, at the age of 33. John Brown John Brown’s claim to fame during the Revolution was masterminding the seizure and destruction of the British customs ship Gaspée in 1772, America’s first provocative act against Britain that led eventually to war. He was considered a rogue by some, a loose cannon by others, and a pillar of the community by many. He and others founded the college which today bears his name: Brown University. Samuel Prescott Dr. Samuel Prescott from Concord, Mass., was courting his fiancée in Lexington on April 18, 1775 when he crossed paths with Paul Revere and William Dawes during their clandestine mission to alert local militiamen and the citizens that British troops were advancing. He agreed to help them without hesitation, but when Revere was captured and Dawes thrown from his horse, it was Prescott who completed the ride to Concord. Samuel Whittemore Samuel Whittemore was the oldest known colonial combatant in the war, born just 75 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
[Show full text]
Unit 4 Content Area: Social Studies Course(S): Generic Course Time Period: Generic Time Period Length: Grade 5 Status: Published Unit Overview (Content)
Unit 4 Content Area: Social Studies Course(s): Generic Course Time Period: Generic Time Period Length: Grade 5 Status: Published Unit Overview (Content) • In Unit 4, students will explore the events that led up to the start of the Revolutionary War. They will analyze how the French . and Indian War outcome played a role in rising tensions between the British and the colonists. Students will identify key events and actions that caused tension to rise with the British. They will also explore how different groups, genders, and races worked together to aide the resistance to British taxation and policies. Finally, students will analyze how the rising tensions boiled over into the start of the Revolutionary War. They will discuss the events of April 18th-19th, 1775 and use a map to identify key locations/events during those two days. They will then explore how these two days resulted in further fighting between the British and colonists. Essential Questions •Based on what you know, how did the colonists work together throughout the period leading up to the Revolutionary War? . •How did certain groups and individuals resist actions taken against the colonists by the British? . •What are the major events that led to the start of the Revolutionary War? . •Why did some colonists choose to remain loyal to the king? . Student Learning Objectives (Skills) •Analyze how prominent individuals contributed to the causes of the American Revolutionary War . •Analyze the impact of the power struggle between European countries on people living in Europe and the Americas . •Analyze the power struggle among European countries, and determine its impact on people living in Europe and the Americas .
[Show full text]
Paul Revere's Ride Cross-Curricular Teaching Idea
CK_4_TH_HG_P087_242.QXD 10/6/05 9:02 AM Page 179 The First Continental Congress, as it was called, adopted the Suffolk Resolves, which had been passed earlier in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The resolves declared the Intolerable Acts unlawful and called for • a boycott of British goods, • the formation of a government in Massachusetts to replace the one disband- Paul Revere’s Ride General Thomas Gage, the commander of the British army and the governor- general of Massachusetts since the colony’s charter was revoked, was determined to seize the arsenal that his spies told him was stored at nearby Concord. On the night of April 18, 1775, some 700 British infantry marched out of Boston en route to Concord, about 17 miles away. They had expected to use their night departure to surprise the colonists, but the redcoats were constantly watched. Any unusual activity was noticed by the colonists. The colonists had discovered that General Gage had requested that the Cross-curricular British fleet anchored in Boston Harbor be prepared to use its longboats to ferry Teaching Idea his soldiers across the Charles River so they would be closer to Concord. But the You may wish to teach two poems colonial soldiers were not sure if this was Gage’s real plan or a ruse to trick them. from Language Arts, “Paul Revere’s The British might also march overland out of Boston. Ride” (pp. 38–39) and “Concord One of the observers was Paul Revere, a silversmith by trade and a Patriot. Hymn” (p. 35), in conjunction with On the night of April 18, he was prepared to spread the alarm.
[Show full text]
History Correspondence and Chose Delegates to an Illegal Provincial Congress, an Event Now Commemorated Annually by the Acton Minutemen As Crown Resistance Day
In Oct. 1774 the town elected a Committee of brief history Correspondence and chose delegates to an illegal Provincial Congress, an event now commemorated annually by the Acton Minutemen as Crown Resistance Day. Early in the morning of April 29, of acton 1775 Dr. Samuel Prescott who, after Paul Revere was captured in Lexington, carried on to Concord word of ACTON the approach of British soldiers, then continued on to Acton where some of the colonial war supplies were Acton, a town with a population of 20,000 is hidden. Three companies, one of minutemen and two situated twenty-five miles northwest of Boston and of militia, gathered and marched for Concord. The • was originally a part of the neighboring town of minuteman company of Capt. Isaac Davis assembled at Massachusetts Concord. Beginning in 1655 approximately 8,000 his home and marched on the old road to Concord, a acres were granted to Concord for pasturage by the part of which is now a town park known as the Isaac General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony- Davis Trail. It is listed in the National Register of predecessor of our State Legislature. Within a year Historic Places. Luther Blanchard, the filer, piped Concord had established on it the sheep belonging to them along the way to the tune of ‘‘The White the local inhabitants in the care of a shepherd, John Cockade’’. The militia gathered at the Faulkner Law, thought to have been a Scottish prisoner-of-war, House, oldest house still standing in town and also transported to America and sold as slave labor for a listed in the National Register.
[Show full text]
William Dawes, Jr. (1745-1799) Slab Grave King’S Chapel Burying Ground Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts Patriot Index / Revolutionary War Graves Register Nat’L
1 William Dawes, Jr. (1745-1799) slab grave King’s Chapel Burying Ground Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts Patriot Index / Revolutionary War Graves Register Nat’l. Society SAR (NSSAR) Louisville, KY, Headquarters December 24, 2014 Submitted by James Edward Mitchell, Chairman Texas Society SAR RevWar Graves Committee On the date above, Compatriot Charlie E. Scott, Editor (newsletter) of The Kentucky Pioneer sent along my copy of Vol 10, Issue 10, (pg 15) that arrived upon my doorstep with a small color photograph of the front street entrance of the ‘Green Dragon’ Tavern at Boston taken previously by Compatriot Tom Geimeier. Charlie, Tom Higgins Past Pres., of the KYSSAR, and, I go back together, through reenacting in colonial clothing to perpetuate our shared American societal beginnings during the Revolutionary War. This story is shared for the benefit of any NSSAR Compatriot to speak publically and factually about Boston’s Seat of Revolution and an American spy cell and first patriot intelligence network on record, known as the Mechanics. This group grew out of another organization, Sons of Liberty that had successfully formed to oppose the dreaded Stamp Act. Kenneth A. Daigler’s book entitled: Spies, Patriots and Traitors published in 2014 by the Georgetown University Press at WDC, depicts the Boston branch of the ‘Sons of Liberty’ over the summer of 1765 as achieving modest success at spreading information and furthering a united political position against the British authorities while, radical more violent street leaders preferred riots, looting, physical destruction of the stamps, and assaults on British stamp agents. In Boston riots were anything but calm organized demonstrations! Daigler wrote that activists enjoyed intimidating local British officials.
[Show full text]
A Counterintelligence Reader, Volume 1, Chapter 1
CHAPTER 1 The American Revolution and the Post-Revolutionary Era: A Historical Legacy Introduction From 1774 to 1783, the British government and its upstart American colony became locked in an increasingly bitter struggle as the Americans moved from violent protest over British colonial policies to independence As this scenario developed, intelligence and counterintelligence played important roles in Americas fight for freedom and British efforts to save its empire It is apparent that British General Thomas Gage, commander of the British forces in North America since 1763, had good intelligence on the growing rebel movement in the Massachusetts colony prior to the Battles of Lexington and Concord His highest paid spy, Dr Benjamin Church, sat in the inner circle of the small group of men plotting against the British Gage failed miserably, however, in the covert action and counterintelligence fields Gages successor, General Howe, shunned the use of intelligence assets, which impacted significantly on the British efforts General Clinton, who replaced Howe, built an admirable espionage network but by then it was too late to prevent the American colonies from achieving their independence On the other hand, George Washington was a first class intelligence officer who placed great reliance on intelligence and kept a very personal hand on his intelligence operations Washington also made excellent use of offensive counterintelligence operations but never created a unit or organization to conduct defensive counterintelligence or to coordinate its
[Show full text]