• 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