THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
The Boston Massacre
In the fall of 1768, 1000 British soldiers arrived in Boston under command of General Thomas Gage. The soldiers and youth yelled insults at each other. The Street youth would yell, "Lobsters for sale," because of their red coats, and the soldiers would yell, "Yankees."
On March 5, 1770 a fight broke out after trading insults in front of the custom house. The soldiers started firing, and Crispus Attucks and four laborers were killed. The Sons of Liberty called the shooting the Boston Massacre.
The Boston Tea Party
The Tea Act caused protests all over the colonies. In Charleston, South Carolina, colonists unloaded tea and let it rot on the docks. In New York and Philedelphia they blocked tea ships from landing. In Boston the Sons of Liberty organized what came to be known as the Boston Tea Party.
On December 16, 1773, a group of men disguised themselves a Native Americans and boarded three tea ships docked in Boston Harbor. They destroyed 342 chests of tea. Britain still wouldn't repeal the tea act, and it wanted repayment for the tea and the men who destroyed the tea brought to trial. The British reaction to the Boston tea party started the rebellion of the thirteen colonies.
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord is the first battle of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775. The Americans in Lexington didn't want to fight and they had been warned that the British were coming. There were small armed farmers standing up against an army from England. England was one of the most small countries at the time.
The Battle of Bunker Hill
In June of 1755 militiamen seized Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill behind Charleston. They built forts for protection on Breed's Hill. The British decided to attack. 2200 British soldiers followed General William Howe across the bay. On top of the hill the militia waited. Colonel William Prescott ordered, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" At first the British fell back but then they charged again and they forced the militia off the hill. The redcoats won the Battle of Bunker Hill but they lost over 1000 men.
Famous People of the Revolutionary War
George Washington- commander in cheif of the Continental Army
Patrick Henry- member of Virginia's House of Burgesses, called for resistance to the Stamp Act
Samuel Adams- leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty, urged colonists to continue to resist British controls
Paul Revere- Boston silversmith, charged with spreading the news about British troop movement
Thomas Jefferson- wrote the Declaration of Independence
Deborah Samson- disguised herself as a man and signed up for the army, fought for over a year, honorably discharge from the army, recieved a government pension
Nancy Morgan Hart- spied on British troops
Abigail Adams- John Adams' wife, thought women should have a voice in the new U.S government, she played an important part in the creation of the new nation
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