1. 4.1: Stirrings of Rebellion

3. The Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770, mob of taunted British guards at Customs House
reinforcements called  crowd throw rocks and snowballs
British fired w/o command
- 5 men killed, including Crispus Attucks, a former slave
British captain and 4 soldiers cleared of all charges
Lesson  British WILL use force when necessary

4. Committees of Correspondence
formed to share patriotic written work b/w colonies
- organized by Samuel Adams of Boston
- wrote letters to one another to explain colony’s actions
got cities/towns in other colonies to do the same
- news from one colony shared with ALL colonies
gave approval for the Boston Tea Party

5. First Continental Congress
Sept, 1774, reps from 12 of 13 colonies met in Philadelphia
agreed on three issues:
stop all trade w/ England
not to obey Brit laws that took away liberty as citizens
meet again May 1775 if demands not met
INTERCOLONIAL ACTION!

6. “give me liberty or give me death”
Virginia House of Burgesses suggested preparing for war
March 1775, Patrick Henry speech to Virginia Legislature
"give me liberty or give me death!"

8. British Plan
Brit secret plan to send soldiers:
- to Lexington  capture colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock
- then Concord  seize gunpowder
plan leaked  Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride

9. Lexington
militias prepared
- “minutemen” ready to fight in a minute's time
m-men waiting on Lexington Green
- outnumbered
Am. Capt. ordered men to march off Green, but keep weapons
- as they began to leave, British fired
- 8 killed / 10 wounded

10. Concord
British found no weapons  Patriots had moved them
British marched back to Boston
- ambushed by m-men
- 73 British killed
- 174 wounded
L & C = Brit casualties 273 > American’s 95
beginning of the Am. Rev.
shots "heard around the world"
*** first fight for self-government ***