SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Minutemen attacked a British fort.
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Colonists refused to let British troops stay in their homes.
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British troops tried to seize colonists’ arms and ammunition.
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British troops tried to break up a meeting in the Old North Church.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache.
Detailed explanation-2: -The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists. Instead, their actions sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
Detailed explanation-3: -The British Army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington as well as to destroy the Americans store of weapons and ammunition in Concord.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Battles of Lexington and Concord confirmed the alienation between the majority of colonists and the mother country, and it roused 16, 000 New Englanders to join forces and begin the Siege of Boston, resulting in its evacuation by the British the following March.
Detailed explanation-5: -No one knows who fired the first shot, but, in “Concord Hymn, ” Ralph Waldo Emerson described it as “the shot heard round the world” because of the importance the Revolutionary War and the United States would have in world history.