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• Objective: I can explain why the colonists felt that the American War
for Independence was inevitable.
• Preview: Answer: What does the phrase “the shot heard round’ the
world” mean to you?
• Process: Guided Notes
• On Your Own: Cause & Effect sort.
Shot Heard Round’ the World
1st Continental Congress, Lexington & Concord, 2nd Continental Congress, Olive Branch Petition
The Shot Heard Round’ the World: Start of the Revolution
1st Continental Congress
Met in Philadelphia in September of 1774 (10 months after the Tea Party)
56 delegates from 12 colonies Debates lasted 51 days! 3 resolutions were agreed upon
1. Boycott all British goods2. Stop exporting goods to Britain3. Each colony should train their own militia• Army of citizens who serve as soldiers in an emergency
(militia)• Minutemen- be prepared to fight at a minute’s notice
› Meet again in a year› http://www.earlyamerica.com/shot_heard.htm
First Continental Congress
Take a guess at who didn’t show
up to the Congress
Virginia sent a particularly familiar man.
“I will raise one thousand men… and march myself at their head for the relief of Boston.”
Richard Henry LeePatrick Henry
Edmund Pendleton
Benjamin Harrison V Richard Bland Peyton Randolph
• Loyalists• 1/3 of colonial population• Believed king had the
right to rule• Had family in England
and did not want them in danger• Felt government run by
Patriots would be worse• May lose wealth
• Loyalists , Tories
• Patriots• No longer wanted to
be “British Americans only “American” • Wanted taxes
removed• Patriots, Colonials,
Whigs
Patriots/Loyalists
• General Thomas Gage pondered ways to remedy the situation and reassure those in Britain that the colonies were secure.• One such way was to conduct routine
raids on colonial military supplies. • April 19, 1775 he sends a regiment of
men to Lexington then on to Concord to seize weapons in both locations.
British React
Lexington• 700 British v. 77 militiamen (farmers basically)• Militia had been warned by famed spies.• 8 minutemen, killed, 9 wounded.• 1 Redcoat injured.
Dr. Joseph Warren William Dawes Dr. Samuel Prescott
Early American Spies
Paul Revere“The British are coming??? No,
no, silly.
Paul Revere
The Midnight Ride
Two lanterns hanging from Boston's North Church informed the countryside that the British were going to attack by sea. The signal was meant to alert patriots about the route the British troops chose to advance to Concord.• “One if by land, two if by sea!”• Old North Church
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
• British regrouped and moved on to Concord• British tell armed colonists to
leave, they start to move out, when a shot is fired.• “Shot heard round the world”• Colonist fire on them from
sniper-like locations.• British retreated back to
Boston
Concord
“shots heard ‘round the world”
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history/videos/first-revolutionary-battle-at-lexington--concord
Schoolhouse Rock: http://youtu.be/rZMmPWTwTHc
2nd Continental Congress: May 1775
Three major things were decided:
A Continental Army would be created, with
George Washington as the supreme commander
(serving without pay, how cool!)
How would supplies be paid for? The Congress
authorized the printing of money.
Congress even appointed a standing committee
to conduct relations with foreign governments,
should the need ever arise to ask for help.
On May 10, 1775 the Second Continental Congress met again, as planned, in Philadelphia to determine the colonies next plan of action.
Their major concern: How they would meet the military threat of the British.
Olive Branch Petition Congress approved this direct
appeal to the king. Pleaded with George III to attempt
peaceful resolution and declared their loyalty to the Crown.
The King refused to receive this petition and instead declared the colonies to be in a state of rebellion in August.
Insult turned to injury when George ordered the hiring of Hessian mercenaries (paid German soldiers) to bring the colonists under control.
TIME FOR WAR…DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN.
Battle of Bunker Hill