1) Went to same place as British marched to. He went to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock.
2) They lined up in rows. British marched into concord. The militia and minute men killed many British on the bridge. The Colonists would attack the British from the back; it was really a brawl. They marched for hours.
3) It legally created the government. Our belief in life liberty and the persuit of happiness and the constitution.
4) Four cities had over 10,000 people in it.
5) Vast untamed continent. There were only two and a half million people. The rivers were highways leading from the ocean inland, but obsticles if you wanted to move from fort to fort. There were lots of trees and forests. We might not recognize it now because there weren’t as many big buildings and cities and there were not as many people by a large gap.
6) James Otis was a Boston Lawyer. His writings inspired the founding fathers. Professional revolutionary man.
7) Samuel Adams was known for organizing a political group known as the sons of Liberty. Patriot leader. They were a mob, not noble idealists.
8) They were noble idealists. They were very cunning, and were willing to do whatever they had to, to get what they wanted.
9) 1/3 wanted liberty, 1/3 didn’t want liberty, and 1/3 didn’t care if there was liberty.
10) During the Boston Massacre, 5 men were killed by British Soldiers. The massacre began due to the tension between the civilians and the military men. The soldiers were in Boston to keep the civilians in order so they wouldn’t begin rebel against the Townshend acts. The people didn’t view them as order keepers, but they though they were more of a threat to their independence. The colonists were extremely fed up with getting taxed on everything that when the government put a tax on tea, they reached their breaking point. The colonists refused to pay taxes imposed by parliament, so parliament took off all the taxes except for the tax on tea. When the tea ships tried to land in Boston, they wouldn’t let them. One ship did land and the colonists invaded it dressed as Indians and dumped all the tea into the ocean. Both of these events led to the Revolutionary War because the Colonists had had enough of the Government and thought they weren’t being treated equally, and they wanted to break free from the government
10) Also Britain, after the Tea Party, had had enough of Boston and blockades the harbor. The King decides to punish the colonists. This leads to the clash at Lexington and Concord for the colonists begin to organize themselves.
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