THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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thought colonial soldiers had fired on them
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captured Paul Revere
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arrived, looking for the Second Continental Congress
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came to arrest colonial leaders and take colonial weapons
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Detailed explanation-1: -Fighting began in Lexington and Concord when British troops came to arrest colonial leaders and take colonial weapons. Hundreds of British troops came marching from Boston to Concord and siezed an arms cache. Among the choices, the correct answer is C.
Detailed explanation-2: -On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column.
Detailed explanation-3: -The battle broke out because the British had ordered troops to seize weapons from the town of Concord and to Capture the rebel leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock from the town of Lexington.
Detailed explanation-4: -The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America.
Detailed explanation-5: -Neither side expected to actually fight, but in the midst of the confusion a gunshot went off forcing the British to attack. Some of the colonists were killed and the rest fled. The gunshot was the first shot of the American Revolution and the start of the war.