*ABC* book: Causes of the Revolution
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A is for Native Americans
Who: Native americans , soldiers
What: Native Americans were in the wars to help other win. Also Native americans were in tribes and wars because they knew how to do everything like cook animals, how to start a fire, and how to use weapons. Which was very helpful.
When: all of the years
Where: All over the world
Why: if Native Americans weren’t born then nobody would have any ideas of how to kill people in the war.
B is for Boston Massacre
Who: Colonists, British soldiers
What happened: A fight started by the Sons for Liberty. An American began harassing a redcoat named John Goldfilnch standing guard. Another man came named Hugh White was defending John. Then White hit the American with a musket in the face. More people became angry and more people came to fight. British pulled out there guns while everyone was running to find safety.
When: March 5, 1770
Where: Boston
Why did this cause the revolution: It caused the revolution because the fight began with the British.
C is for Concord
Who: colonists , redcoats/british
What: The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts.
When: 1775
Where: Massachusetts
Why: This caused the resolution because the British didn’t win the war between Lexington and Concord
D is for Dumping Tea
Who: Colonists, Indians, Merchants
What: A law allowed the East India Company of Britain to sell tea in America at a very low price. For several years, Merchants had avoided paying taxes. The people who were on the boats weren’t really Indians they just dressed up. They started dumping the Tea because
When: December 19, 1773
Why: This caused the revolution because the Indians weren’t really Indians they were only just dressed up and they dumped was over 92,000 pounds of tea.
E is for whites of their eyes
Who: William Prescott
What: The origin of this alleged command to the American patriots at Bunker Hill on 17 June 1775 may have been Col. William Prescott’s order to reserve fire and aim low because powder was scarce.
When: 1775
Where: Boston
Why: William said this note because if he didn’t then the team would waste the bullets.
F is for French and Indian war.
Who happened: France and England went to war over the Ohio River Valley.
England won and made colonists pay taxes to pay the cost of the war.
When: 1754-1763
Where: Colonies
Why did it cause the revolution: Colonists did not want to pay taxes without reputation in parliament.
G is for Give me liberty or give me death.
Who: Patrick Henry
What happened: Patrick Henry said ” Give me liberty or give me death” because he would rather die than not have an vote with taxes.
When: 1765
Why did this cause the revolution: This caused the revolution because he said this as a stand to not pay taxes.
H is for Bunker Hills
Who: colonists , redcoats
What: On June 17, 1775, early in the Revolutionary War (1775-83) the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts.
When: June 17,1775
Where: Massachusetts.
Why: Bunker hill was a hill and the teams were below and on top of the will with walls to protect you.
I is for Intolerable
Who: committees of corasparrece
What: They spears the news of the Intolerable acts and people were furious with Britain
When: 1773
Where: Boston
Why: They thought that the laws were to harsh.
J is for John Adams
Who: John Adams, soilders
What happened: John Adams defended the soliders at there trial. He wanted to show Britian that courts we’re fair.
When: 1775
Where: Boston
Why did this cause the revolution: This caused the revolution because John wanted to prove that soilders have been protecting themselves.
K is for King George
Who: King George , colonists
What: England’s longest-ruling monarch before Queen Victoria, King George III (1738-1820) ascended the British throne in 1760. During his 59-year reign, he pushed through a British victory in the Seven Years’ War.
When: 1760
Where: England
Why: A member of the Hanover dynasty, which ruled England for almost two centuries.
L is for Lexington
Who: colonists redcoats
What: The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between resiadents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts
When: 1775
Where: Massachusetts
Why: Lexington and Concord was war and we didn’t win.
M is for Midnight Ride
who: colonists , Paul revere
What happened: Paul has a plan to warn people in the countryside about the British coming, but he needs to know which direction they are taking. So the two men agree on a secret code: Paul’s friend will signal him by hanging one lantern in the church belfry (the tall tower in a church where the bells are hung) if the British are marching out on land, two lanterns if they are leaving in boats. After agreeing on this plan, Paul rows across the river and waits for the sign.
Where: Boston
When: April 18 , 1775
why: So through the night rode Paul Revere
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm
N is for No taxation without representation
Who: Colonists
What happened: Colonists were upset that they were being taxed by parliament without any representation. They made this chant and said it all through years before the war.
When : 1765 – end of the war
Where: All through the colonies.
Why did this cause the revolution: Colonists were so upset by not getting a vote that they went to war to separate from England
O is for Ohio River Valley
Who: French and British
When: 1754-1763
What happened: France and British were fighting over the Ohio River Valley. British won and got the Ohio River Valley.
Where: Ohio
Why did it cause the revolution: The French and Indian War cost Britain a lot of money so they had to tax the colonists to pay for it.
P is for proclamation Of 1763
Who: Colonists
What happened: The people listed above signed the proclamation of 1763, stating that colonists can not pass a line in the Appalachian Mountains.
When: 1763
Why did this cause the revolution: When America signed the proclamation they stated that no colonists could cross a line in the Appalachian Mountains.
Q is for quick walk back to Boston
Who: redcoats colonists
What: when walking back to Boston redcoats think the war is over. Well not for the others. They started shooting to redcoats as they didn’t have warmed up guns and ready to fire.
when: 1775
where; field
why: Most redcoats died but some survied
R is for Paul Revere
Who: Paul Revere , soldiers , colonists
What happened: Paul Revere became a Freemason in 1760 , and soon joined two more overtly political groups *The Sons Of Liberty* and the North End Caucus.
When: 1760
Where: Massachusetts
Why did this cause the resolution: Sliversmith Paul Revere took part in Boston Tea Party and famously said the Lexington Minutemen about the approach of the British in 1775.
S is for Sam Adams
Who: Sam Adams, British Soldiers
What happened: Sam Adams wanted more colonists to know what was happening around the colonies. In 1772 Adams and other colonial leaders in Boston set up Committees of Correspondence to share news with the other colonies. Correspondence is written communication.
When: 1772
Where: Boston
Why did this cause the revolution: This caused the revolution because they sent each other letters about what the British were doing and what actions colonists could take.
T is for Taxes
Who: British and the colonists
When: 1754-1763
What happened: British was making the taxes higher. For the king who can get more money from people.
Where: Colonies
why did it cause the revolution: Taxes without representation.
U is for unusal strategy
who: colonists , redcoats
what: In some parts of social studies redcoats jump out of no where and they start shooting and sometimes other teams do to.
when: all the time
where: everywhere
why:
V is for patriot vs. loyalist
who: colonists, redcoats ,everyone
what: British personnel are causing violence, riots, and death (Boston Massacre & Boston Tea Party)
when: 1775
where: Boston
why: its matters because on team is gone.
W is for Dr. Joseph Warren
Who: Paul Revere , colonists , Dr. Warren
What happened: Dr. Joseph Warren (of the Sons of Liberty) sends for Revere and asks him to ride to Lexington and warn Hancock and Adams of British plans. At 10:00 clock Dr.Warren sent in a great haste for Paul, and begged that Paul would immediatly set off for Lexington.
When: April 18 1775
Where: Charlestown
Why did this cause the resoultion: Paul Revere did not gain immediate fame for his April 1775″Midnight Ride.” In fact, it wasn’t until Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1861 poem, which greatly embellished Revere’s role, that he became the folk hero we think of today
X is for exiting the field
who: redcoats colonists
what: While redcoats were exiting the field the other colonists/team was getting there guns ready to shoot but redcoats didn’t know anything about this so redcoats didn’t have there guns ready so is took longer.
when; 1775
where field
why: A lot of redcoats died which means causing us to win.
Y is for young nation
Who: colonists redcoats/british
What: all Those who had tried to win battles tried but others won the actual war.
When: all times
Where everywhere
Why: those who died and those who won and lost
Z is for zipping up to Boston
who: British
what: while they were walking back the other team was mad that they didn’t wins so they started shooting.
when: 1775
where: field
why: the redcoats werent ready
Published: Feb 10, 2016
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