Topic or Main Idea: The Colonists Come Together (based on a chapter from a 5th Grade Social Studies textbook)
| Who? | What? | When? | Where? | Why? |
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Samuel Adams |
Committee of Correspondence |
Early 1770s |
Massachusetts? Representatives came from almost all the colonies |
Formed to help news spread very quickly |
| Sons of Liberty Patriots | Boston Tea Party | December 1773 | Boston, Mass. | To boycott British tea |
| Parliament | Blockade | 1773 | Boston Harbor | To force colonists to pay for destroyed tea |
| Continental Congress | Meeting where they agreed to stop all trade with British | Sept. 1774 | Philadelphia | To decide what to do next |
| British General Gage | Sent 700 soldiers | 1775 | Lexington/Concord | To search for weapons, make colonists obey! |
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Paul Revere |
Minutemen |
April 19, 1775 |
Lexington/Concord |
Warn colonists that British were coming! |
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