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Chapter 6 Section 3 Notes
The Road to Lexington and Concord.
Notable concepts/words
Militia
Minutemen
Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress
Paul Revere’s “Midnight Ride”
Lexington and Concord
Patriots
Loyalists / Note Taking Area
A force of volunteer, armed civilians pledge to defend their community.
The nickname given to Colonists – who were militiamen trained to act at a “minutes notice.”
A series of acts enacted in 1774 by Parliament that served as a punishment to the Massachusetts colony for throwing the Boston Tea party. The acts would close the port of Boston until the colonists paid for all the destroyed tea. Banned committees of correspondence and appointed British General Thomas Gage in charge, placing him as the Military Governor of Massachusetts.
In September of 1774, delegates from all the colonies except Georgia, decide to meet in Philadelphia, PA to discuss how to deal with the Intolerable Acts. The delegates agree to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed and it called for the colonies to start training their own troops for battle.
On April 18, 1775, Members of the Sons of Liberty were given information by their spies that the British were about to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock in Lexington and seize ammunition that was stored by the colonists in Concord. Paul Revere along with William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott would take a midnight ride throughout the countryside from Boston to warn the colonists of the British troop’s coming to Lexington and Concord. Revere stated he would place 1 lantern in the window of the steeple of the “Old North Church” In Boston if the “Redcoats were coming by land” and “Two lanterns in the steeple window if they were coming by sea/river.” Revere and Dawes would then gallop through the countryside in the dark, all the way to Lexington and Concord. They were stopped along the road by a British patrol and Dr. Samuel Prescott was able to escape and make it all the way to Lexington and Concorde. Revere and Dawes were eventually let go by the British.
On the morning of April 19, 1775, 700 British troops arrive in Lexington and clash with 70 minutemen. The minutemen were told to drop their arms. They refused and someone fired “The shot heard round the world!”
Eight minutemen were killed. The British troops moved into Concord where they were met by 4000 minutemen who fired upon them until they ran all the way back to Boston.
Were Colonists were wanted to break away from British rule – The Rebels
Those who would remain loyal to the King and on the British side.
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