February 9

1) TEST THIS FRIDAY!!!!

Topics covered will be: The French and Indian War, colonial government and what may have influenced it, Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights, British actions after the French and Indian War (Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Quartering Act, etc.) Patriots, Loyalists, taxation without representation, Boston Massacre, Redcoats, Boston Tea Party, monopoly, Intolerable Acts, Continental Congress, Paul Revere, minutemen, Lexington and Concord, propaganda, Thomas Paine – Common Sense


2) Finish assignment from class on Midnight Ride if not already done. See task below along with excerpt from the poem. Here is the link to the map shown in class. http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/virtual.shtml


Task: Think about the poem “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.” If you were to pay homage to his two companions William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott instead, how would you do it? Change the poem to suit what YOU THINK best represents the Midnight Ride.

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1861

LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower, as a signal light,
--One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country-folk to be up and to arm."


NOTES FROM CLASS

Intolerable Acts
To punish the Bostonians for tossing British tea into Boston Harbor
1)Parliament closed Boston’s ports
2)The city of Boston had to pay for the tea
3)More troops were sent into Boston

With each passing day, colonists get ready for an armed conflict.
a)The Continental Congress meet and they send a list of complaints to Parliament (they want to repeal 13 Acts and to boycott all British goods_
b) Minutemen were colonial soldiers trained to get ready at a minute’s notice.
Patrick Henry: “Give me Liberty or give me Death!”

Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

One if by land, Two if by sea…..
Paul Revere instructed a church employee to hang 2 lanterns in the Old North Church to warn Charlestown, the town across the Charles River that that more British were coming into the city by sea
He then rode into Lexington to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock that they were to be arrested by the British for being leaders of the Sons of Liberty and that all weapons would be seized in the neighboring town of Concord.

Paul Revere’s companions on the night of April 18, 1775
-William Dawes
-Dr. Samuel Prescott

The real story: Paul Revere made it as far as Lexington where he, Dawes, and
later on, their co-conspirator Dr. Samuel Prescott were arrested.
Dr. Prescott escaped and rode on to Concord to warn the colonists there that the
British were going to seize their weapons. Soon Dawes and Revere escaped too,
but the Battles at Lexington and Concord had already begun…