Battles of Lexington and Concord

The Battles of Lexington and Concord started the Revolutionary War. Even though the battles didn’t occur until 1775, tension between the colonies and the British Parliament started over 10 years prior after they decided to start imposing taxes. At the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, the British Parliament was in debt. The colonies were prospering, so they looked to them as a way to help generate income. They told the colonies that the increase in taxes were their way to pay for…

to handle things, this meeting was called the first Continental Congress. The result of this meeting was the colonies boycotting British goods until Parliament repealed the coercive acts. They met again in May of 1775, after the Lexington and Concord battle. This battle was…

After the blood shed at Lexington and concord, Colonials got committed to a course of rebellion and independence. That was the conclusion drawn my Thomas Paine who urged others to join the rebellion. Thomas Paine published a pamphlet named ‘The common sense’. The common sense talked about…

Harbor. The amount of tea thrown over would have costed a total of $1,700,000 over all. This problem, out of many, have been making many colonists very mad and irritated. They were done with the disagreements and many other problems. Due to taxes, battles, and the Continental Congresses, The Revolutionary War would begin. To begin with, the taxes were very irritating. One example is the British taxing the Americans with the Tea Act. The Americans did not want to be taxed on tea and so they…

So the colonists hid their weapons and gunpowder somewhere the troops would never find them. So when Paul Revere yelled out that the British were coming, Lexington found out and went against the British but were soon shot down and killed. Soon enough the British made it to Concord and searched the place immediately looking for the gunpowder and weapons. So the British soldiers set tools, tents, and gun carriages on fire when not able to find the weapons and gunpowder…

1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. This was the start to the American revolution. Bunker Hill, Battle of Bunker hill started in 1775. The first great battle of the Revolutionary War; it was fought near Boston in June 1775. The British drove the Americans…

On April 19, 1775, from an unknown origin along the open plains of Lexington, Massachusetts Bay, a musket shot sailed through the open air between where an American militia and a British troop regiment were currently standing off. In its wake, an uncoordinated British retaliation left several militiamen dead. The end of salutary neglect had brought an increasingly tighter grip on the colonists of the still-budding British America, from the restrictive trading policies placed by the Sugar Act to…

riders set out to warn people of the oncoming troops. Paul job was to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams. After succeeding he reunited with his fellow horsemen and rode to warn those in Concord who had ammunition for the Continental Army. He and one of his fellow horsemen were caught; the other escaped to warn Concord. After being tried and released, he later became a Lieutenant Colonel during the Revolutionary War. After being warned by Paul Revere; seventy-seven MinuteMen…

and the battle of lexington and concord are the three main reason. The boston tea party made the king from England mad which led up to tensions between them. Then the intolerable acts is what caused fear after the boston massacre and that act was for americans to provide the british soldiers a room to stay even when they don't want them in the house. Then when tension was really high that’s when they settled it on a small battle which the colonist felt like it was an inevitable battle against…

plausible; however, the colonists faced some repercussions of the British governor of Massachusetts. The government sent British troops to seize military stores at Concord. During the battle, British troops were defeated when local militiamen intercepted the British troops in Lexington. The battle became known as the Battle of Concord and Lexington. The colonists’ idea of independence…