1. Critical Thinking Question
Is there a task, event, object, or something else that has two names? One a positive name and one a negative name for the same thing? Why do they have two names?

2. The Road to Lexington and Concord
Pamphlet Project 3

3. The Intolerable Acts
After the Boston Tea party, King George the III said, “We must master them or totally leave them to themselves and treat them as aliens.”
Britain tries to “master” the colonies
Britain passed the Coercive Acts to punish the colonists, the colonists called them the “Intolerable Acts.”
Closed the Harbor of Boston
Forced to House troops

4. The First Continental Congress Meets
Delegates from every state, except Georgia, met in Philadelphia to discuss the Intolerable Acts
Voted to ban all trade with Britain until Intolerable Acts were repealed
Told each colony to start training soldiers
Planted the seed for America’s own government

5. Between War and Peace Parliament wasn’t moved by boycott this time
Colonists were preparing for fight
John Hancock created Boston’s “Committee of Safety” – militia

6. Midnight Ride
British and American spy networks were watching one another
British found out that Americans had weapons in Concord and that Sam Adams and John Hancock were hiding out in Lexington
Paul Revere, a colonist spy watching British troop movement
Paul Revere’s signal
One if by land, two if by sea
Paul Revere and William Dawes rode across the countryside in their “Midnight Ride” warning the colonists that the “British were coming.”

7. Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775, “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World”
700 British troops stood up to 70 colonists and ordered them to drop their weapons at Lexington
The colonists refused and gun fire started
The British marched to Concord, they were met by 4,000 colonial minutemen
Lexington and Concord became the first battles of the Revolutionary War
Americans who supported the British were known as Loyalists
Americans who supported the colonies (the rebels) were known as Patriots