a call to arms. september 1774 55 delegates to philadelphia huge names: ben franklin sam adams, john...

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