People: Misc: Sir Thomas Gage (role in revolution) Continental Congress (date, purpose) Paul Revere (role in revolution) Militia (purpose) George Washington (role in revolution) Second Continental Congress (date,purpose) Loyalist (define) Common Sense Pamphlet (date, purpose) Patriot (define)
Battles: Lexington and Concord (what happened, explain significance) Bunker Hill (what happened, explain significance)
British Both Colonists
Sir Thomas Gage Lexington and Concord Continental Congress ● commander of British troops in ● April 19, 1775 ● September, 1774 Boston ● 70 minutemen were waiting for the ● 55 men came together to establish ● instructed to take away the British - the British killed 8 men a governmental body to represent weapons of the Massachusetts and continued on to Concord American interest and challenge militia and arrest the leaders ● The British destroyed the British control Loyalist remaining supplies of gunpowder Militia ● on Britain’s side - did not consider ● more militia met them along the ● citizens who became soldiers to get taxes unfair or good enough reason roads; wounding 174 and killing 73 ready in case of war to rebel redcoats Paul Revere ● This battle began the fighting; ● rode to Lexington to warn Samuel known as “the shot heard around Adams and John Hancock that the the world” British were coming after their The Battle of Bunker Hill store of ammunition ● June 16, 1775 Patriot ● 1,200 militiamen set up on Bunker ● fought against Britain; wanted Hill, British charged - but were independence pushed back 3 times Second Continental Congress ● Americans ran out of ammunition - ● May 10, 1775 therefore lost ● began governing the colonies, ● Many British killed, over 1,000 printed money, set up a post office, started communicating with other countries, created Continental Army ● eventually creates a committee to write the Declaration of Independence George Washington ● becomes army commander Common Sense Pamphlet ● written by Thomas Paine ● January 1776 ● called for complete independence from Britain ● it was “common sense” to stop following the king ● the cause was for freedom, not just fighting over taxes