The Road to Lexington and Concord

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The Road to Lexington and Concord

• The Tensions between Britain and the Colonies led
  to armed conflict in Massachusetts

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Key Terms and Key People

• Key Terms
• Militia
• Intolerable Acts
• First Continental Congress
• Lexington and Concord

• Key People
• Minutemen
• Paul Revere
• Loyalist
• Patriot

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Lockdown

• Britain chooses to rule the colonies more
  severely after the Boston Tea Party
• Britain issues the intolerable acts to hurt
  Massachusetts and send a warning to all colonies
• The Intolerable act was used to drive the
  colonies apart but brought the colonies closer
  together

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Act-ing up

• The Intolerable Acts Could
• Close Boston Harbor until the Tea was paid off
• Ban Committees of Correspondence
• Extend the quartering act in the colonies
• Let British Officials stand trial for crimes in
  Britain
• Appoint General Thomas Gage Governor of
  Massachusetts

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The Birth of a Nation..Almost

• Delegates from all colonies except Georgia met at
  the First Continental Congress
• Colonies would stop all trade with Britain and
  Start training troops, including Georgia
• The colonies were not ready for Independence, but
  the steps were being taken to become a free
  country
• The Delegates would meet again in 7 months, but
  fighting would begin before then

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Give me Liberty or Give me Death

• Boycotts against the Intolerable Acts led to
  stronger restrictions in the colonies
• Jon Hancock began to prepare the Militia to fight
  in the event of war
• Leaders hoped the threat of war would be enough
  to end the intolerable acts, but war began to
  look more likely

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Spy vs. Spy

• Spies on Both sides gained information about the
  other Armies
• Through Spies General Gage ordered the Weapons at
  concord Destroyed and The arrest of Samuel Adams
  and Jon Hancock
• The sons of Liberty were prepared for such a plan

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Blinded by the Lights

• Paul Revere and William Dawes would use a planned
  route to warn the colonies about troop movements
• Using Lanterns, Revere and Dawes would be able to
  Warn the colonists how the British were arriving
• When the British made their move Revere and Dawes
  Completed their Midnight Ride, and with the Help
  of Samuel Prescott warned concord of the attack

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The Shot heard Round the World

• Captain John Parker and his militia were waiting
  for the British troops with their weapons drawn
• When the First Shot was fired 8 militia men were
  killed and Britain was able to destroy supplies
  at concord before retreating at a bridge north of
  town
• 4000 Minutemen would arrive in Lexington and
  Concord to aide in the First battle of the
  Revolutionary war
• Patriots and Loyalists would be forced to pick
  their sides as the war began in the colonies

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