THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (Sept. 5, 1774): Response to

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GIVE ME LIBERTY OR
Patrick Henry
GIVE ME DEATH!
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THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (Sept. 5, 1774)
Response to the Intolerable Acts

• Suffolk Resolves were sent to King George III,
  because the colonies did not recognize
  Parliaments power.

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THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

• The intolerable acts violate their rights as
  British subjects.
• Colonies will boycott English products.
• All colonies will form and train militias.

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• Minutemen
• Ordinary Massachusetts citizens who would be
  ready to fight in a minutes notice.

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LORD NORTHS COMPROMISE (1775)

• Parliament will not tax any colony whose
  inhabitants tax themselves for the purpose of
  contribution to a common defense.

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ACTS of PARLIAMENT (1775)

• New England is excluded from fishing off the
  coast of Newfoundland and prohibited from all
  trade except with England and the West Indies.
• No arms or ammunition can be imported to New
  England.

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THE START OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1775-1781)

• LEXINGTON and CONCORD (April 19, 1775)
  Map page 156

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LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

• General Tomas Gage sends 700 Redcoats under
  Lieutenant Francis Smith to take military
  supplies the minutemen have at Concord.

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LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

• Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott
  ride from Boston to warn of the British advance.

Revere
Dawes
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LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

• 77 minutemen gathered at Lexington start to break
  up when ordered by the British.
• The Shot Hear Around The World Who shot first?
  Unknown, but 8 Americans are killed and 10 are
  wounded as the British march to Concord.

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LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

• At North Bridge, large group of minutemen see
  fire in Concord and storm North Bridge killing
  two Redcoats.

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LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

• British flee. The Redcoats break ranks and
  retreat to Boston under sniper attack.
• 99 Redcoats killed.
• 49 Americans killed.

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BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL(June 16, 1775)

• 16,000 American troops surround Boston and hold
  this strategic hill. The Redcoats attack with
  well trained troops.

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BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

• Either William Prescott or Israel Putman gave
  order, Dont shoot until you see the whites of
  their eyes!, because the Americans were running
  out of ammunition.

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BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

• Although the Redcoats eventually captured Bunker
  Hill, over 1,000 Redcoats were killed or wounded.
  American morale is uplifted.

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FORT TICONDEROGA(May 10, 1775)

• Ethan Allan and Benedict Arnold together with the
  Green Mountain Boys capture this British fort.

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FORT TICONDEROGA

• For the first time the Americans take a British
  fort and gain much needed large cannons.

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BATTLE OF QUEBEC(December 1775)

• Benedict Arnold marches 1,000 troops through the
  wilderness of Maine to attack Quebec and control
  the St. Lawrence River.
• However, many died on the march and Arnolds
  attack was defeated by the British.

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THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS(May 1775)