10/28/2016
• Who is fighting?: Patriots (Colonists) vs. Redcoats
(British)
• Paul Revere: Warned the colonists “The British
are coming”
• Militia: Locals who rounded up weapons and
supplies to fight (what might this look like?)
• Lexington and Concord “The Shot Heard Round
the World”
• First battles of the revolution
• Who fired first?
Second Continental Congress
• May 1775: Delegates meet in Philadelphia
• First attempt at a Republican government
• Continental Army: established by the 2nd
Continental Congress
• George Washington put in charge of the
army
Bunker Hill
• 2400 British vs. 1600 militia men
• Fought on Breeds Hill outside of Boston
• “Don’t shoot ‘till you see the whites of their
eyes!”
• Colonist fought hard, 3 charges towards the
British
• Colonist lost, but proved they could take on the
British, many more British killed.
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