Louis B. Vega
SOCIAL SCIENCE
8th Grade
Chapter 5: Section 2
THE SHOTS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
The
First Continental Congress
-punish Massachusetts to frighten others
-other colonists to take advantage
Committee of Correspondence:
a network to keep in touch
-colonists did not take advantage, rallied
together,call to meet instead
First Continental Congress:
colonial leaders sending of delegates to Philadelphia
-took moderate position, passed resolutions
-colonial assemblies could raise taxes, no
peace time presence of soldiers
-enforce boycott, Loyal Address to King George
III
Lexington
and Concord
-no colonial legislature functioning, Martial
Law
Patriots:
local groups taking political power
Minute Men:
civilian soldier supposed to be ready in a moments notice
Concord:
a town about 15 miles outside Boston were a supply of weapons were
stored
Lexington:
Where Sam Adams and other Patriot leaders like Handcock were
-Paul Revere rode to rouse the country side of
the coming British.
-confrontation at Lexington 70/700
-a shot was fired, no account
-marched to Concord, occupied the town and
destroyed supplies
-Minute Men rapidly gathered and drove back 3
infantry companies
-Smith decided to march back to Boston.
-the Corridor of Hell- snipers all along the
way to Boston, citizens joined the battle
Breed’s
Hill
-within 48 hours, 20,000 angry
American militiamen gathered
-New Massachusettes provencial Assembly
appointed military commanders
-confusion, no order/direction
-only major British force was in
Boston/concentrated
-Green Mountain Men captured fort Ticonderoga
-Americans occupied Bunker Hill, high points
at Charles Town
-British Ships could shell Boston from this
position, needed to cleared
-generals come, Howe a veteran of French and
Indian wars in Quebec attacked
-revenge seen by all of Boston, American
inexperienced in war
-legend “fire until you see the whites of
their eyes….”/ retreat
-failed second attempt, frontal assault
backfired/miscalculation of American soldiers
-3rd attempt, line broke through
The Revolutionary War: the conflict between the American colonies and Britain
Battle of Bunker Hill: American lost to Gen. Howe who attempted to take 3
times.