A CALL TO ARMS Chapter 5, Section 3

The British tried ____________________ more times and were fired on again. In the end, the Americans ran out of ____________________ and had to ________________________.

two, gunpowder, pull back

1st Continental Congress voted to boycott trade with Britain, voted to boycott trade with _____?

Brittan

The British won the Battle of ____________________ Hill, but more than ___________ British troops died or were wounded

Bunker, 1,000

After _______________________ and ____________________, many volunteers joined the militias.

Lexington, Concord

________ - chose to stay with Britain, did not feel that unfair taxes and laws were reason enough to rebel, expected the British to win

Loyalists

The war was not just between the British and the Americans. It was also a war between ____________________ and ____________________.

Loyalists, Patriots

____ - colonists who supported the war for independence, felt they could not longer live under British rule

Patriots

April 18, 1775 _______ and ______ warned the people that the British were coming,

Paul Revere, William Dawes

1st Continental Congress: Where

Philadelphia

"________" 450 vs. 1,054

Pyrrhic Victory

1st Continental Congress: When

September 1774

He joined Ethan Allen and the ____________________ militia. The two militias caught the British by ____________________.

Vermont, surprise

The colonists soon heard about these ____________________. They had to decide whether to join the ____________________ or stay ____________________ to Britain.

battles, rebels, loyal

British Response to the 1st Continental congress was to prepare for ____, several thousand British troops were stationed in and around Boston, ordered to get rid of the militia's ____ and ____ their leaders, headed to Concord to destroy weapons and ammunitions rumored to be there.

fighting, weapons, arrest

When this was discovered, he ____________________ to New York City. There he commanded ____________________ troops and fought ____________________ the Americans.

fled, British, against

AT Lexington and Concord they found that most of the ____ had been removed. As the British marched back to Boston, the militia fired on them. By the time they reached Boston, ___ British were dead and at least ___ were wounded.

gunpowder, 73, 174

1st Continental Congress: What

issued a statement that asked Parliament to repeal 13 acts that violated their rights

1st Continental Congress voted to boycott trade with Britain called on people to arm themselves against the British, militias and _____ were formed.

minutemen

1st Continental Congress: Why

set up an organization that would challenge British control

Fort Ticonderoga ____________________ on May 10, 1775.

surrendered

Later in the war, Arnold sold military information to the ____________________.

British

The militia around ____________________ soon numbered about 20,000.

Boston

The next day the British troops charged up ____________________ Hill. The Americans ____________________ at the soldiers, and they ____________________.

Breed's, fired, retreated

On June _____, 1775, about 1,200 militiamen took up positions at ____________________ Hill and ____________________ Hill, across from ____________________ Harbor

16, Bunker. Breed, Boston

1st Continental Congress WHO:

55 delegates (John Adams, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington

On April 18, 1775 British troops were met at Lexington by ____ minutemen, someone fired a shot and fighting began, the British moved on to ____.

70, Concord

Benedict ____________________, a captain in the Connecticut ____________________, raised 400 men to capture Fort ________________________.

Arnold, militia, Ticonderoga