1. A Call To Arms
Section Three

2. A) Meeting in philadelphia

3. 1774
Continental Congress
In 1774, members of the colonies met in Philadelphia to create the Continental Congress to find ways to further protest British actions. Fifty-five men from twelve colonies participated. Georgia did not send anyone.

4. Founding Fathers Emerge
S. Adams
J. Adams
John Jay
Washington
Patrick Henry
Founding Fathers Emerge
Richard Henry Lee
The delegates demanded that the British acts be repealed, the boycotts of British goods continue, and that colonial militias needed to be created.

5. Continental Congress British laws be repealed
Continue boycott of British goods
Organize a colonial militia
Continental Congress

6. East & West Florida
East and West Florida remain loyal to Great Britain, refusing to participate in these actions. Florida becomes a destination for more and more loyalists.

7. William Bartram
In 1774, William Bartram traveled to Florida to explore the natural beauty. He calls Florida a “Garden of Eden.”

8. B) Fighting Begins

9. Colonial Militia
The first militias were created in New England where most of the trouble was located. They called themselves the “minutemen” because they could be ready in a minute’s notice!

10. Minutemen

11. Gen. Thomas Gage
King George III
In April 1775, King George III sent General Thomas Gage and several thousand British soldiers to surround and occupy Boston. Gage was also ordered to seize weapons and arrest colonial leaders.

12. Lexington & Concord April, 1775
After hearing that weapons were in the city of Concord, General Gage orders 700 British troops to the city.
April, 1775
Lexington & Concord

13. April 18, 1775
William Dawes
Paul Revere
On April 18, 1775; Paul Revere and William Dawes race to the town of Lexington from Boston to warn the colonial leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Both men make it there and then move on to Concord. Paul Revere is captured by the British.

14. “The British Are Coming!”
Stories tell us that Paul Revere rode through the night shouting, “The British are coming, the British are coming.”

15. “The Regulars Are Out!”
False!! The British soldiers were called the regular soldiers. On that fateful night, Paul Revere rode to warn his fellow colonists that “The regulars were out.”

16. William Dawes
April 18, 1775
William Dawes also rode out that night but gets little credit! He snuck out of Boston by land while Paul Revere went by water. After warning Adams and Hancock in Lexington, both men went on to Concord joined by Dr. Samuel Prescott. Paul Revere was captured by the British, Dawes tricked the Redcoats, and Prescott arrived in Concord to ward the militia to move their weapons.

17. Capt. John Parker
The following morning, Captain John Parker led over 70 minutemen to meet the 700 British soldiers in Lexington. The British fired first, killing eight militia men and wounding ten more.
Stand your ground. Don’t fire until fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here John Parker

18. After the battle at Lexington, the British continued on to Concord
After the battle at Lexington, the British continued on to Concord. No weapons were found!
April 19, 1775
Lexington

19. Battle of Concord
On the North Bridge outside Concord, a much larger colonial force of minutemen were waiting for the British. They killed 73 and wounded 174 British soldiers. This event is known as the “Shot Heard Round the World.”

20. “Shot Heard ‘Round the World”

21. C) More Military Action

22. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
Benedict Arnold
At the same time, Benedict Arnold organized the Connecticut militia and joined Ethan Allen and the Vermont Green Mountain Boys. Together they defeated the British at Fort Ticonderoga.

23. All over America, colonial militias began to get thousands of volunteers. However, the colonial militias made up only three percent of colonists!

24. Col. William Prescott
On June 16, 1775; Colonel William Prescott took 1,200 colonial militia soldiers to Bunker Hill outside Boston. The next morning, the British attacked and forced the Americans off the hill after three attacks. The Americans had the high ground but ran out of ammunition. Although the British won, it came at the cost of over 1,000 British soldiers.

25. “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” - Col. Parker
Battle of Bunker Hill

26. Battle of Bunker Hill
June 16, 1775

27. With violence starting, the colonists became either loyalists, wanted to stay loyal to England, or patriots, who wanted American independence.

28. Tories/loyalists

29. Patriots