1. Get your Notebooks: Lexington & Concord
“The Shot Heard Around the World!”

2. One American’s Story Dawn on April 19, 1775
70 militiamen – grassy common – Lexington, Mass
Captain John Parker led militia
Minutemen-”ready to act at minute’s warning” ** British were coming!

3. 4 Intolerable Acts
After Boston Tea party there was fury in Britain bc they felt colonists should pay for the over 1million $$ worth of tea
1774 Parliament passed series of punishment laws = Coercive Acts
Colonists call them “INTOLERABLE ACTS
1. close the Boston port until colonists pay
2. Ban committees of correspondence meetings
3. Enforced the Quartering Act
4. British officials in colonies who committed crimes didn’t have to go to trial in colonies…they’d go to Britain = unpunished for crimes

4. First Continental Congress
September delegates to Philadelphia
Voted to ban all trade with Britain until Intolerable acts were repealed
*this meeting planted seeds of a future independent government
This boycott=backfired on colonists because Britain increased restrictions and sent more troops
Patrick Henry expects war = “give me liberty or give me death” spoken in the Virginia House of Burgesses

5. Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Sam Adams had a spy network
April 18, 1776 British commander sent orders to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock in Lexington
Paul Revere rode “the British are coming” and 1 lantern = by land and 2 lanterns= by sea!

6. Lexington & Concord 1st two battles of Revolutionary war
April British troops reach Lexington
Captain John Parker leads 70 minutemen
Nobody knows who fired first shot, but somebody did
British kill 8 minutemen and head to Concord
4,000 Minutemen show up on the road from Lexington to Concord and fire upon the British chasing them back to Boston
LOYALIST = colonist loyal to Britain
PATRIOT= colonist who sided with the colonial rebels