Agenda 10918 National Leif Erikson Day and National

Agenda 10/9/18 � National Leif Erikson Day and National Moldy Cheese Day � Lexington Notes � Analyzing Documents � Discuss Test

6. 3 The Road to Lexington and Concord

Intolerable Acts � Close the port of Boston until colonists paid for the destroyed tea � Banned committees of correspondence, allowed Britain to house troops wherever necessary � Let British officials accused of crimes in the colonies stand trial in Britain � Parliament appointed General Thomas Gage governor of Massachusetts � Gage puts Boston under Martial Law � Rule implemented by military forces

Intolerable Acts Video

First Continental Congress � Delegates from all the colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia � Voted to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed �Big idea was claiming colonial rights! � Called on each colony to begin training troops � Stockpiling weapons

Between War and Peace � 1775, General Gage send agents to find weapons stockpiles � Return with maps detailing weapons stores � Discover resistance leaders John Hancock, Samuel Adams in Lexington � Hancock in charge of mobilizing the militia � Adams has spy network watching British movements

Paul Revere � Charged with spreading the news about British troop movements �Warned Adams and Hancock � If one lantern burned in the North Church steeple, the British troops were coming by land; if two, they were coming by water

“Regulars Are Coming”

Lexington and Concord � April 19 th, 1775, some 700 British troops reached Lexington � They found Captain John Parker and about 70 militiamen waiting � Within a few minutes eight militiamen lay dead � 3, 000 -4, 000 minutemen ambush British in Concord, kill dozens � Minutemen were civilian soldiers � Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the Revolutionary War � “Shot heard ‘round the world”

Lexington Video

DECLARING INDEPENDENCE 6. 4

FORT TICONDEROGA �May 10 th, 1775, Americans attacked Britain �Ethan Allen led this band of backwoodsmen known as the Green Mountain Boys �Captured the fort and its large supply of artillery (i. e. cannons) �Took the cannons to Washington and his men outside of Boston

FORT TICONDEROGA & ETHAN ALLEN

SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS �Meets in Philadelphia �Debate independence �Recognize militiamen as Continental Army �Print paper money to pay troops

CONTINENTAL ARMY �Washington was chosen as its commanding general

THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL � Tensions were building in Boston in June 1775 � Militiamen seized Bunker Hill and Breed’s Hill behind Charlestown � General William Howe crossed the bay with 2, 200 British Soldiers � Colonel William Prescott ordered, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” � 1000 redcoats/British were killed compared to only 400 militia casualties � Costly win for the British

BUNKER HILL

OLIVE BRANCH PETITION �July 1775 �Asked the king to restore harmony between Britain and the colonies �The king rejected the petition and orders a naval blockade

THE BRITISH RETREAT FROM BOSTON � The Continental Army had surrounded British forces in Boston � Cannons were being hauled from Fort Ticonderoga � General Howe, who was now in charge of British Forces, decided to withdraw his troops � More than 1, 000 Loyalist supporters left along with the British troops

COMMON SENSE BY: THOMAS PAYNE �Common Sense attacks King George; calls for independent republic �Argues independence will allow free trade, foreign aid �Independence can give equal social, economic opportunities to all �Almost 500, 000 copies of pamphlet sold; convinces many colonists to fight for independence

A TIME OF DECISION �Continental Congress remained undecided �They did, however, appoint a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence �Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson (Main writer of Declaration)

THE DECLARATION IS ADOPTED �On July 4 th, 1776, Congress adopted the document that proclaimed independence �The core idea of the Declaration is based on the philosophy of John Locke. � people have natural rights to life, liberty, property � people consent to obey a government that protects rights � people can resist or overthrow tyrannical government