Homework Guide

Chapter 7 Lesson4

Homework Guide

Monday –

Reread pages 252-253 and answer the following questions:
Which side had more casualties at Lexington?
What was the “shot heard ‘round the world”?
What did colonists do to respond to the news of the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Why did the Patriot militia decide to build a fort on Breed’s Hill?
How many of the British soldiers were killed or wounded at the battle?
Why do you think a Patriot leader at the Battle of Bunker Hill told his soldiers not to fire at the British until they saw “the whites of their eyes”?

Tuesday –

Reread pages 254 – 255 and answer the following questions:
Why did Congress decide it needed to create an army?
Why did the Second Continental Congress send the Olive Branch Petition to King George III?
Could war between the colonies and Britain have been avoided? Why or why not?

Wednesday –

Thursday –

Friday –

Chapter 7 Lesson4

Homework Guide

Monday –

Reread pages 252-253 and answer the following questions:
Which side had more casualties at Lexington?
What was the “shot heard ‘round the world”?
What did colonists do to respond to the news of the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Why did the Patriot militia decide to build a fort on Breed’s Hill?
How many of the British soldiers were killed or wounded at the battle?
Why do you think a Patriot leader at the Battle of Bunker Hill told his soldiers not to fire at the British until they saw “the whites of their eyes”?

Tuesday –

Reread pages 254 – 255 and answer the following questions:
Why did Congress decide it needed to create an army?
Why did the Second Continental Congress send the Olive Branch Petition to King George III?
Could war between the colonies and Britain have been avoided? Why or why not?

Wednesday –

Thursday –

Friday –