American History (Exams)

People who want liberty and freedom

People who agree with the King; not always agree, but don't rebel

A gathering of colonial leaderswho were concerned on how England is treating the colonies

To state the concerns of the colonists and ask the King to correct the problem

• -Continue to boycott British goods
• -Told the colonial militia to prepare for war

• -Ordinary citizens that volunteers to protect a community in times of need.
• -Also called minutemen

Outline 10 statements against the King

Thomas Gaige and he found out that colonists were gathering weapons in the town Concord

He decided to sieze the supplies

False; they didn't know how they would attack

Robert Livingston, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott, and Paul Revere

Robert Newman

• Raise 1 lantern - British come across land
• Raise 2 lanterns - British come across sea

2; the British were coming by land

He was captured

The battles at Lexington and Concord

A pamphlet where he argues that citizens, not kings, should make laws. This was called Common Sense.

It was called this because some people were hearing about it, so they told their friends and so on and so forth.

• -Thomas Paine's words reached all the colonies.
• -Changed the way many colonists viewed the King
• -Argued for economic freedom and for the right to have a military

Authorized that the Massachusetts militia was to become the new Continental Army (fought in blue)