Name:________________________________Per:________
6.3 A Call to Arms
1. Define the following terms:
Minuteman
Loyalist
Patriot
A Meeting in Philadelphia
2. What was the Continental Congress and what was its purpose?
3. What four things were decided at the First Continental Congress?
1. Called for _______________________________________________________________
2. Voted to ________________________________________________________________
3. Declared the _____________________________________________________________
4. Called on _______________________________________________________________
Fighting Begins
4. Read about events that led to the first military exchange between soldiers and fill in the chart.
Many colonists believed
___________ in
British General
that if fighting were to
Massachusetts held
____________________
occur, it would happen in
______, made ________
had orders to seize
____________________
and stored ___________.
weapons & arrest leaders
Revere and Dawes _____
Dr. Warren alerted _____
Gage ordered troops to
to __________________
_________ and William
__________ to seize and
to warn that the _______
Dawes that the British
_________ all arms and
____________________
were marching out.
ammo they could find.
5. As you read about the events at Lexington and Concord, answer the true or false questions
below. Underline the statement that makes it false.
_________ Minutemen with muskets outnumbered the British and stopped them in Lexington.
_________ No one knows who fired the first shot at Lexington.
_________ The British found huge stockpiles of weapons at Concord.
_________ Redcoats fired on minutemen at North Bridge and forced the colonists to retreat.
_________ Colonists fired on the British from trees as they retreated back to Boston.
_________ Lexington and Concord marks the beginning of the battle for independence.
More Military Action
6. Why did colonists attack Fort Ticonderoga?
7. What did Benedict Arnold do in the future?
8. What did the British learn at Bunker Hill?
9. Read “Choosing Sides” and explain each side’s perspective below:
Loyalists
Patriots
6.4 Declaring Independence
1. Define the following terms:
Petition
Preamble
The Second Continental Congress
2. Why did the delegates of the Continental Congress meet again in 1775?
3. Read about the delegates to the Continental Congress and fill in the chart below:
Returning Delegates
 Wealthy merchant
 Funded the Sons of
Liberty
 President of the 2nd
Continental
Congress
 Leader in PA
legislature
 Represented
colonies in London
 Got the Stamp Act
repealed
 Only 32
 Served in the
Virginia House of
Burgesses
 Brilliant thinker
and writer
4. What were the key actions taken at the Second Continental Congress?
1. Authorized the ___________________________________________________________
2. Set up a ________________________________________________________________
3. Formed committees to _____________________________________________________
4. Created the _____________________________________________________________
5. Who was chosen to lead the Continental Army? Why?
6. What was the Olive Branch Petition? How was it received?
7. What were Washington’s goals after the Second Continental Congress?
8. What did Thomas Paine write about in his pamphlet Common Sense?
Declaring Independence
9. As you read about the Declaration of Independence, fill in the chart below:
Topic
Description
Some delegates thought the colonies should not form a separate
nation. Could Britain hurt them? Others argued the war had already
begun, and they should be free.
Committee of Five
(include its members)
John Adams convinced this man to be the main author of the
declaration by saying a Virginian should do it, and he was both
popular and a great writer.
John Locke’s influence
on the Declaration
10. Read about the Declaration of Independence, title the chart below, and then fill it in.
1.
A ________________ that states _______ the people wish to form a new country.
2.
The ___________ the colonists believed they should have.
3.
Their _________________ against _________________________________.
4.
___________________ the __________________ of a ___________________________.
11. What is the significance of the date July 4, 1776?
12. What were some of the grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence?