American History

Monday, October 16th

 Warm Up
Mindset Monday

Why do you think its better to offer no excuse?

Do you agree or disagree with Washington? Why?
 Today in History
1793 Marie Antoinette is beheaded
1859 John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry
1987 Baby Jessica is rescued from a well after
being trapped for 58 hours.
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 Activity
Road to Revolution comic
First Continental Congress
The Shot Heard Around the World
After the 1st Continental Congress, the
colonies established elected their own
congresses to prepare themselves for
conflict.
Militias were organized, drilled and
supplied.
 Lexington & Concord
The Shot Heard Around the World
Lexington & Concord
April 1775 General Gage ordered his
troops to seize a Patriot stock of weapons.
700 British troops began to march by
night to Concord.
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The Shot Heard Around the World
The British departure was noticed by the
Patriot Dr. Joseph Warren, who
dispatched Paul Revere and Billy Dawes
to warn the colonist.
Paul Revere was rowed across the
Charles River estuary and he rode
eastward to Lexington.
 Lexington & Concord
The Shot Heard Around the World
Billy Dawes rode south from Boston and
met up with Revere in Lexington.
They met up with Dr. Samuel Prescott
who had been visiting his sweetheart in
Lexington and was returning to
Concord.
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The Shot Heard Around the World
The 3 men encountered a patrol of
British soldiers, who captured Revere
before Dawes escaped on foot and
Prescott jumped his horse over a stone
wall and rode away to warn Concord.
 Lexington & Concord
The Shot Heard Around the World
The midnight ride successfully warned
the colonial militia, who were assembled
and waiting in Lexington when they
arrived.
About 40 men were assembled in
Lexington under to command of
Captain Parker and told not to shoot,
only to stand in defiance of the British
troops.
 Lexington & Concord
The Shot Heard Around the World
140 British troops approached the
Patriots, also under orders not to shoot.
British commander Major John Pitcairn
told the minutemen to disband.
Somehow, a shot rang out and the
British opened fire, killing 8 minutemen.
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The Shot Heard Around the World
As the British marched on to Concord,
hundreds of minutemen met on the
outskirts of town.
The British entered the town and began
to confiscate and burn Patriot munitions,
which the men thought was their homes.
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The Shot Heard Around the World
The minutemen advanced on the British
and pushed them back through exchange
of gunfire.
The minutemen continued to fire on the
retreating British from the cover of walls,
trees and buildings.
 Lexington & Concord
The Shot Heard Around the World
At the end of the Battles of Lexington
and Concord:
Patriot Casualties = 49 killed, 39
wounded.
British Casualties = 73 killed, 174
wounded.
British were trapped in Boston in a
decisive Patriot victory.