a call to arms. september 1774 55 delegates to philadelphia huge names: ben franklin sam adams, john...
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A CALL TO ARMS
CHAPTER 5 SECTION 3
September 1774
55 delegates to Philadelphia
HUGE names:
Ben Franklin
Sam Adams, John Adams
George Washington
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson…
THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
VOTED TO:
Boycott all British goods
Nothing sold to Britain
Prepare to defend themselves with militia
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
Minutemen- “ready in a minutes notice”
Stockpiled weapons, made bullets
In Britain:
George hoped to end problems with the colonists peacefully
Looking more and more like that isn’t possible
Sent Thomas Gage to lead army in Boston to watch over
READY FOR BATTLE
Colonel Francis Smith to Concord to take or destroy all of the supplies being kept at Concord
April 1775- troops made their way west toward Concord
THOMAS GAGE
Sent to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that “The British were coming…”
Samuel Prescott – finished Revere’s ride
PAUL REVERE and WILLIAM DAWES
British find about 70 militiamen in Lexington
8 killed
Move on toward Concord
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
Concord had mostly been cleaned out by the time British got there.
At North bridge colonists won a battle and turned redcoats back
Colonists lined the path back to Boston
Injured 174 and killed 73 Brits
“Shot heard round the world”
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
BOTH GOING TO ATTACK FT. TICONDEROGA
ETHAN ALLEN LED THE “GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS”
JOINED TOGETHER AND CONQUERED THE FORT
LATER, ARNOLD SOLD INFORMATION TO BRITISH AND ATTACKED COLONISTS
“TURNCOAT”
BENEDICT ARNOLD & ETHAN ALLEN
June 16, 1775
1200 militiamen set up on Bunker and Breed’s Hills
Actually fought at Breed’s Hill
Prescott: “Don’t fire til you see the whites of their eyes…”
British made two charges up hill
Took the hill on the 3rd
BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
British Charge
British lost more than 1000
Colonists lost 400 in dead and prisoners
British win – Americans ran out of gunpowder
Learn this won’t be easy
LOYALISTS
PATRIOTS
“DON’T CARE” AREN’T AFFECTED
WAR AND CIVIL WAR WRAPPED INTO ONE
STORY OF THIRDS