Name: ______Date: ______
Chapter 5 Sections 3 & 4 Notes
Chapter 5 Section 3: A Call to Arms
Continental Congress: ______
______
Name the delegates sent to the Continental Congress. Include the state they represented.
Name of Delegate / State of Delegate- The delegates voted to ______.
- ______also decided to endorse the Suffolk Resolves.
- The Suffolk Resolves wanted the colonists to take arms against the British so they
formed ______, which are groups of ______.
- Militia companies in Massachusetts held ______, made
______, stockpiled ______and ______.
- ______bragged that the would be ready to fight the redcoats at
a “minutes notice”
King George III told Parliament “blows must decide who controls the colonies”.
- What does that mean? ______
______
- A British general named Thomas Gage was told to ______
______AND ______
______.
- Gage learned the colonists were storing weapons at ______, a
town about 20 miles from Boston so he ordered ______troops to go
there to destroy the weapons.
- ______rode to warn Samuel Adams that the British
were coming. He shouted, “The regulars are out!” to warn colonists along the way.
Battle of Lexington & Concord (WINNER: ______)
- When the British approached Lexington 70 minutemen waiting for them with
muskets, ready to fight. When the fight ended ______minutemen laid dead.
- The British kept marching and colonists spread the news of their arrival. How did
they spread that news? ______
- By the time the redcoats reached Boston, ______were wounded and
______were dead.
Battle of Bunker Hill (WINNER: ______)
- On June 16th, 1775, ______militiamen set up a military fort at Bunker Hill,
which was located near ______where the Redcoats stationed their
troops.
- At the end of the battle, the Americans ______
and had to withdraw.
- Although ______won the Battle of Bunker Hill, they suffered heavy
losses—more than 1,00 soldiers dead and wounded.
- The American Revolution was not just a war between Americans and British, it was
a civil war among ______and ______.