...This happened on April 19,1775 and was considered the first battle of the American Revolution. This battle is legendary and even though the Americans lost it is important. It has the nickname ‘shot heard around the world’. The redcoats are coming! is also a phrase that is included in the Battles of Lexington and Concord. It was a battle 800 to 70 so of course the americans would lose but this battle gave them the spirit to work their hardest and win their independence. It is also known for its tactic “guerilla warfare” which was first introduced to the world in this battle. The guerilla warfare tactic is popular today and involves soldiers hiding from their enemies in battle. In this time the Europeans fought as gentlemen in which the two opposing sides face each other on the battlefield and shoot each other when their commanders say Fire! The Battles of Lexington and Concord are so important there are even things from them that impact the world today. This is why the Battles of Lexington and Concord are the second most important cause of the American...
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...The Final Straw The Boston Tea Party, boycotting British goods and many more non-violent attempts were made by the colonists to try and get the King to change the way they were being treated. The King’s abusive decisions and actions towards the colonists were always met with them trying to peacefully resolve the problems. It wasn’t until April of 1775 that things changed. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are the unfortunate events that finally erased any hesitation or doubt in the minds of the colonists that war was the necessary choice. Abigail Adams said, “The die is cast...Heaven only knows what is next to take place, but it seems to me the Sword is our only, yet dreadful alternative, and the fate of Rome will be renued [sic] in Britain,” (Bober 245). The First Continental Congress was held September 5...
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...In 1774, King George The Third, shut down the Boston harbor until all the taxes from the Boston Tea Party were payed for. The amount of tea was almost 1,000 pounds. This was one reason people began to revolt which caused the Lexington and Concord battle. On April 18th 1774, a man name Joseph Warren realized that the redcoats (British) were coming to travel through Concord. He sent Paul Revere and William Dawes out to warn other colonists of Concord that it might be too dangerous for them there because they knew the British were going to attack. Revere and Dawes were to travel through Lexington to Concord on horse. This is how Paul Revere became famous for the saying “The British are coming”. While patrolling and telling residents to vacate in Concord on their way to Lexington Paul Revere was captured by the British soldiers and William Dawes was not captured but was thrown off his horse and forced to walk back on foot. The battle began on the 19th of April In Middlesex County, within the two towns...
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...Boston Tea Party 4 After Effects 1. Boston Harbor smelled as a result of over 92,000 pounds of tea dumped into the harbor. 2. The news of the Boston Tea Party reached London, England on January 20, 1774, and as a result the British shut down Boston Harbor until all of the 340 chests of British East India Company tea were paid for. 3. The implication and impact of the Boston Tea Party were enormous ultimately leading to the start of the American Revolution which began in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. 4. Many of the Boston Tea Party participants fled Boston immediately after the event to avoid arrest. The Intolerable Acts 4 After Effects 1. American colonists responded with protests and coordinated resistance by convening the First Continental Congress in September and October of 1774 to petition Britain to repeal the Intolerable Acts. 2. The first was the Boston Port Bill and it closed the Boston Harbor until the people of Boston paid for the tea that they threw into the harbor. It went into effect on June 1, 1774. 3. The Administration of Justice Act became effective May 20th and it did not allow British soldiers to be tried in the colonies for any crimes they might commit. This meant the soldiers could do anything they wanted since they would probably not be punished for their crimes. 4. The Massachusetts Government Act which also took effect on May 20, 1774, restricted town meetings to one a year unless the governor approved any more...
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...Act came the Townshend Acts, placing taxes on all imported goods. The colonists were angered and boycotted all imported goods. In response to the colonist’s actions, King George sent more of his troops to the colonies to maintain order. Not long after their arrival, the Boston Massacre occurred. The Boston Massacre was not really a massacre. In fact, it wasn’t officially called a massacre until 1773, 3 years after the event occurred. The Sons of Liberty, a secret organization formed to protect the rights of the colonists, used the event as propaganda to convince more people to join them. As seen in the picture in document 3, pictures illustrated the Boston Massacre as if the British soldiers had lined up and aimed their rifles purposefully at the colonists in an attempt to kill them all which was highly exaggerated. A little while after the Boston Massacre came the Tea Act, which technically lowered the price of tea, but nonetheless angered the colonists. In the colonists’ eyes, the British Parliament taxed an international item as a way to show their power. In response to the Tea Act, the Sons of Liberty organized the Boston tea Party where they dressed as Indians and poured 342 chests of tea into the Boston River. That angered King George, so he placed the Intolerable...
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...University of Phoenix Material Causes and Outcomes of the Revolution Part 1: Causes Complete the grid by describing each pre-war event and explaining how it contributed to the Revolutionary War. |Pre-War Event |Description |Contribution to the Revolutionary War | | |(1754–1763) is the American name, British name is the 7 year war. The war was |Debt from French and Indian war was a big contribution to Revolutionary War | |French and Indian War|fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France, with | | | |both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great | | | |Britain and France, who declared war on each other in 1756 | | | |Act that reduced taxes on molasses and sugar, laid |Money made from the Sugar Act was used to keep British Troops present. | |Sugar Act |taxes on indigo, pimento (allspice), some wines, and coffee, and increased | ...
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...Battle of Lexington & Concord Written by: Kaitlyn Carter In 1764 the Lexington War started with Lexington and the British. The British had a plan to go to Lexington and capture 2 people. The wanted to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock. After they captured them two people they went to Concord to get gun powder. Americans somehow found out about that plan and spread the word. There were two light near the church in North Boston that said the Boston were attacking from sea. Paul Revere went on a horse to warn the people the British were coming. The minutemen fought inspired many Patriot's to take weapons from the British. The British had a surprise victory. Lexington fought the British in 1775 to start off the revolutionary war. "I shall feel no pain from the toil or the danger of the campaign, my unhappiness will flow from the uneasiness I know...
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...Federalist Party. Hamilton took the lead in the funding of the states' debts by the Federal government, the establishment of a national bank, a system of tariffs, and friendly trade relations with Britain. Anti-Federalists: who favored a more decentralized federal system. Articles of Confederation: postwar economic conditions were difficult because British markets were closed to the new nation and the Articles had not provided for a mean to raise taxes or stimulate economic recovery. Shay's Rebellion made many Americans fear that anarchy would destroy the new republic and led them to clamor for a stronger national government. Battle of Bunker/Breed’s Hill: took place on June 17, 1775, just a few months after the start of the American Revolutionary War. Boston was being besieged by thousands of American militia. The British were trying to keep control of the city and control its valuable sea ports. The British decided to take two hills, Bunker and Breeds, in order to gain a tactical advantage. The American forces heard about it and went to defend the hills. Although the British won the hill and the battle, they paid heavy costs with so many soldiers, officers dying. This gave the Americans courage to know that they could stand up to the British in battle. Many more colonists joined the army after this battle and the revolution continued to grow in strength. Boston Tea Party: The Boston Tea Party was a pre-revolutionary incident that occurred on December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party...
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...On Boston’s King Street, a soldier standing guard in front of a customs building was attacked by colonists. They threw rocks and snowballs, progressing to the point where reinforcements were required and more British soldiers had arrived to control the colonists. And when the colonists would not stop rioting, the British fired on them, killing several instantly. It is disputed whose fault the Boston “Massacre” is. On one hand, colonial reports and a depiction by Washington Irving vilify the British. Irving had shown them to be cruel and ruthless, stabbing colonists with their bayonets. But some blame the colonists for being rowdy protestors who were harassing a British soldier. And although it wasn’t a “massacre,” it was treated as...
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...1763- called for no expansion after colonists had just fought for land for 9 years • Colonists respond > Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, etc > British back off • (British and colonist tension due to presence of British troops in the colonies who took low wage jobs, get drunk, “date your sister” > Boston Massacre - colonists use propaganda which stirs up more colonial discontent • Tea Act 1773- high quality tea at a low price which affects and angers the merchant class (whom have power), • Boston Tea Party- merchants dress up as Indians during the night, sneak on British ships and dump the tea into the Boston harbor > British not willing to back-down this time because they saw it as a challenge of their authority • British respond with Coercive Acts- colonists called “Intolerable Acts” > brings up debate to colonists of “self governing” • Colonists respond by calling First Continental Congress > friendships and alliances made > embrace Virginia Resolves • British lead colonists are forming militia and storing gunpowder send troops to intervene > Lexington and Concord • Second Continental Congress: First met on May 10, 1775, 3 weeks after the Battles of Lexington and Concord • All colonies sent delegates, who agreed to support war...
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...representation” rejecting the rules and authority of the British Parliament to tax them because they lacked representation in the parliament. This event lead to the Boston Tea Party in December 6,1773 where Boston colonists dressed as Indians threw chests of taxed tea into the harbor to protest British taxes on tea. During the American Revolution, there were also some battles involved...
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...When people talk about the Revolutionary War almost anyone can name a few battles. In this paper I will look into three key battles: Battle of Lexington/Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill and the Battle of The Chesapeake Capes or Yorktown. “ The American revolution did not begin with the ‘shot heard round the world.” It started when tens of thousands of angry patriot militiamen ganged up on unarmed officials and overthrew British authority throughout all of Massachusetts outside Boston.”(Ray Raphael p. 69) Before we begin to understand the battles of the Revolutionary War we must first look into some of the causes. One main cause happened more than two-hundred years before anyone even thought of an independant America, that was the colonization...
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... |Contribution to the Revolutionary War | |French and Indian War|Also known as the Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict marked another |The French and Indian War helped lead to the Revolutionary War in two ways. | | |chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France’s | | | |expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims |First funding this war lead to a huge national debt for Great Britain, which they felt | | |of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British |the Americans should help pay. Parliament decided to service the debt by passing the | | |declaration of war in 1756. Boosted by the financing of future Prime Minister |stamp act, a terrible failure that angered citizens on both sides of the Atlantic, which | | |William Pitt, the British turned the tide with victories at Louisbourg, Fort |started the rift between Britain and its colonists. | | |Frontenac and the French-Canadian stronghold of Quebec. At the 1763 peace | | | |conference...
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...Article 1: The Boston Tea party was a major event that occurred during the American Revolution. It all started when the British decided to make a new act called, the Tea Act, which made tea cost more. So many of the colonists got mad, because of this act, especially the Sons of Liberty, which was a group of men led by Samuel Adams and this group wanted freedom. So on the night of December 16 1773 Samuel Adams and the sons of liberty dressed up as Indians, and boarded 3 British ships and threw 342 chests of tea into the water. Article 2: The battle of Lexington and concord was the battle that started off the American Revolutionary war. The tension had been building up for years between the British and the colonist. On April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to Concord which was nearby to Boston, in order to seize an arms cache. Shortly after that the British were retreating because of the non-stop firing of the American Miltiamen. The British came back after with more troops and reinforcements, and fired and killed almost 90 colonists. Advertisement:...
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...Although they were all causes to the American Revolutionary War, but the numerous Acts passed by the Parliament was the hugest factor that made American Revolution inevitable. Without a doubt, the Stamp Act easily angered the colonists because they were forced to pay tax. Even worse, after the Boston Tea Party incident, the Intolerable Act was passed to force the colonists to pay even more. They knew this must not continue and it is time to revolutionize. After all, the Acts were the biggest deterioration that contributed to the American Revolution. Furthermore, the United States won their independence through the American Revolutionary War. That was the most difficult challenge they faced because the British was extremely powerful. By winning the war against the British, they granted their liberties, rights, and independence. The events of 1760s-1770s absolutely made an impact to the creation of a new government for the United States. The people of the United States hoped to be isolated from the British and be independent. Also, they wanted...
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