The beginning of a New Nation

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The beginning of a New Nation

• The Shot Heard Round the World

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Causes

• We were at a crossroad in Colonial History
• Britain was determined that the colonies were
  going to pay their way
• Taxes were inevitable
• There was to be no representation in the
  Parliament for the Colonies
• The Declaratory Act established the fact that the
  colonies were subservient to the Crown

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• The Boston Massacre was a call to arms
• The Boston Tea Party was proof that the colonist
  were going to even more extremes than before
• The Sons of Liberty were getting bolder in their
  actions
• The more outward the attacks the harder England
  fought back.
• Now shutting down colonial assemblies and courts

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• The Committees of Correspondence were making
  clear the various problems that each colony was
  encountering
• When England passed the Intolerable or Coercive
  acts against the people of Massachusetts Bay
  Colony for their part in the Boston Tea party it
  was clear that a decision had to be made
• It was time for the Colonies to make a decision
  that would forever change the way they were to
  live

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First Continental Congress

• The First Continental Congress met in
  Philadelphia Pa in the fall of 1774 after being
  called to meet by the Committees of
  Correspondence
• 12 of the 13 Colonies met to try and come up with
  a plan to deal with the Intolerable acts
• Georgia was the lone Colony not to be represented

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• New York and Pennsylvania came to the congress
  with instructions to seek peace at all cost
• Patrick Henry and others remained in heated
  debate that violence was the only solution
• The final outcome was a mixed bag at best
• Continue the Boycott of British goods.
• Advising the colonies to start forming their
  militias to prepare for war.
• Drafted a set of 10 resolutions entitled the
  Declaration of Rights to be sent to the King

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• Throughout the fall of 1774 and into the spring
  of 1775 Boston and Mass Bay Colony continued to
  suffer as a result of the Intolerable Acts
• In April 1775, it all comes to a head in
  Lexington and Concord Mass.

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• Concord had been storing guns, Powder and
  Ammunition in its warehouses
• Concord was chosen because it was away from
  Boston the center point of the British Army
• Was felt that someplace this far from Boston
  would be safer and take longer for British troops
  to get to it and since it would take some time
  they would be discovered if they did attempt to
  find it

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April 18/19 1774

• The British Army out of Boston set out for
  Concord in boats hoping to sneak into the area
  down the Charles river just East of Lexington
• There they took to the road toward Lexington and
  Concord
• They had already been discovered when they left
  Boston and riders were waiting for them seeing
  them offload their boats

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• The road to Lexington and Concord was narrow and
  lined on the sides with short stone walls
• Troops had to march the narrow road in fairly
  close quarters
• In the early hours of April 19, 1775 the British
  regulars met the Lexington Militia outside of
  Buckman Tavern on the Green in Lexington

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• The intent was not to start a war
• They intended to show the troops that they
  objected to their presence and displeasure of the
  troops in violating their rights as British
  subjects
• 79 men stood on the green in the early hours on
  the morning of April 19th 1775
• By Daybreak those men would become some of the
  first casualties of the American Revolution

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• A single and evoked shot rang out from behind a
  stone wall. "The shot that was heard round the
  world", is still unknown from which musket, or
  which side the shot came from, either way The
  Shot will be Heard Round the World
• The British killed eight minutemen, and wounded
  nine others. The war has begun
• The American Revolution starts on this day and
  will continue for several years to come.

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