Chapter 7 Lesson 4

Question 1

Who were the Patriots?

Answer 1

Colonists who opposed British rule. Many spoke out against the British government.

Question 2

In 1775, what were the British doing in the Boston Harbor?

Answer 2

They blocked the Boston Harbor in order to keep ships form entering or leaving Boston.

Question 3

Who was Mercy Otis Warren?

Answer 3

A Patriot writer. She wrote plays criticizing Bristish officials in Boston.

Question 4

What did Patrick Henry say that led many colonists to share his views?

Answer 4

He said that he was eager for a war with Britain.

Question 5

What is a militia?

Answer 5

A group of ordinary people who train for battle.

Question 6

In the colonies, what were the militias doing, and who made up most of the men in the militias?

Answer 6

• They were training for battle.
• Most of the men were farmers.

Question 7

What did General Thomas Gage, the British governor of Massachusetts learn?

What did he order after learning this information?

Answer 7

• He learned that the Patriots wee storiing gun powerder and cannons in Concord, which is about 20 miles from Boston.
• He ordered soldiers to go destroy the supplies.

Question 8

Was General Gage able to keep it a secret that he had sent soldiers to Concord to destroy the Patriots’ gunpowder and cannons?

Answer 8

No, Patriots in Boston learned what he had planned.

Question 9

How did the Boston Patriots warn the Concord Patriots/milita that British soldiers were coming at night?

Answer 9

• They used laterns in the tower of Boston’s North Church to warn Concord.
• Patriots rode ahead to warn the Concord Patriots/militia. Some of those riders were Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott.

Question 10

What were Minutemen?

Answer 10

Militia with special training. They had to be ready for battle at a minute’s notice.

Question 11

As Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott galloped ahead to Concord, who did they alert?

Answer 11

• The Minutemen
• Revere told them “The Regulars are coming out!” Regulars are what they called the British soldiers.

Question 12

Did Revere, Dawes, and Prescott all make it it Concord?

Answer 12

No, Revere got caught in Lexington. Prescott made it to Concord.

Question 13

Where did the first battle take place in the Revolutionary War?

Answer 13

Lexington Massachutets.

Question 14

How did the first battle in Lexington start?

Answer 14

• A group of minutemen were waiting in Lexington for the British.
• The British officer told the minutemen to leave.
• As the minutemen turned to go, someone fired. Nobody knows which side did it.
• Both sides started shooting at each other.
• When it was done, eight colonists were dead, and nine were wounded. Only one British soldier had been hurt.

Question 15

After the battle in Lexington, what happened in Concord?

Answer 15

• As the British searched Concord for hidden weapons, more minutemen gathered nearby.
• Fighting broke out, and the minutemen were able to force the British to turn bakc toward Boston.

Question 16

What did the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson call this event?

Answer 16

“The shot heard round the world.”

It was the beginning of the fight for freedom which eventually led to the United States becoming an important country in the world.

Question 17

What happened to the British soldiers as they marched back to Boston from Concord?

Answer 17

• Colonists from the nearby towns and townds farther away tracked the soldiers, hid behind treees and walls, and shot at the British soldiers.
• More than 250 British soldiers were wounded or killed.

Question 18

What happened as the news about the Battles of Lexington and Concord spread?

Answer 18

Thousands of armed colonists surrounded Boston. The British in the city were trapped.

Question 19

Where did the Patriots militia build a fort after the battles of Lexington and Concord?

Answer 19

They built it on Breed’s Hill which his just outside of Boston. They planned to fire cannons at the British in Boston.

Question 20

After the Patriots built the fort on Breed’s Hill, what did the British do?

Answer 20

• They attacked the fort the next day with 2,000 men.
• It took them three tries to take over the fort.
• The British lost a lot of men.
• They were able to take it when the Patriots ran out of gunpowder.
• The Patriots proved they could fight in a big battle.

Question 21

What did William Prescott, a Patriot leader tell his milia as the British attacked the fort on Breed’s Hill?

Answer 21

• “Don’t fire until you see the whites o their eyes.”
• He did not want his men to waste gunpowder on shots that were too far away.

Question 22

What was the battle on Breed’s Hill called?

Answer 22

It was called Bunker Hill even though it was actually fought on Breed’s Hill.

Question 23

Why did the Second Continental Congress meet in 1775?

Answer 23

• The British had not agreed to meet the First Continental Congress’s demands.
• They decided that they needed to create a new army called the Continental Army who would train full time as the British did. The members of the militias were only part-time soldiers.

Question 24

Who did the Second Continental Congress pick to organize and be the commander of the Continental Army?

Answer 24

George Washington, because he had experience fighting in the French and Indian War.

Question 25

What is a commander?

Answer 25

The officer in charge of an army.

Question 26

What is a petition?

Answer 26

A written request from a number of people.

Question 27

Did all the delegates in the Second Continental Congress want to go to war with Britain?

Answer 27

• No, many did not.
• They only wanted to be treated fairly.

Question 28

As a result of not every delegate from the Second Continental Congress wanting to go to war, what did they do?

Answer 28

• They sent King George III the Olive Branch Petition.
• It asked him to help end the conflict.

Question 29

How did King George III react to the Olive Branch Petition?

Answer 29

• He did not even read it.
• Instead, he sent more soldiers to the colonies.

Question 30

For the first nine months after the Second Continental Congress met, What did the British do?

What did the Patriots do?

Answer 30

• The British army stayed in Boston.
• Washington used the time to turn the colonial militia into a real army.

Question 31

Who was Colonel Henry Knox, and what did he do for Washington?

Answer 31

He went to New York and brought captured cannons back to Boston.

Question 32

When Henry Knox brought the cannons to Boston, what did the British do?

Answer 32

• They sailed out of Boston Harbor.
• This was a success for the Patriots, but the war was just beginning.