USA HISTORY

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Battles of Lexington and Concord were significant because
A
that ended the American Revolutionary War.
B
it was the end of peace negotiations between the French and Spanish
C
it was the beginning of poor trade agreements between Native Americans and the colonists
D
the battles were the beginning of armed conflict between the American colonists and the British.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -American victory. 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-2: -The Battles of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775, the famous ‘shot heard ‘round the world’, marked the start of the American War of Independence (1775-83). Politically disastrous for the British, it persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of independence.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The British were shocked by the news coming from the Colonies. They did not expect the Colonists to really fight. The British truly expected the Colonists to back down. When the first news of the debacle in Lexington and Concord reached England, the story was initially written off as “colonial propaganda".

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