Chapter 66.1

Fighting Begins in the North

After the shot heard ‘round the world

• Messengers scramble to get the word out

• Militias gather at Boston• What now?

2nd Continental Congress Meets

• They do not want to break with Britain.

2nd Continental Congress Meets

• They send the Olive Branch Petition to King George III. They offer loyalty to Britain, and ask him to repeal the Intolerable Acts.

2nd Continental Congress Meets

• They prepare for possible war, forming the Continental Army, under the leadership of George Washington.

Meanwhile back at Ft. Ticonderoga

• Ethan Allen and the Green Mtn. Boys, a militia group from Vermont, take Ft. Ticonderoga, near Canada.

Advantages

• PATRIOTSPATRIOTS• Defending

home• Know

geography• Good shots

• BRITISHBRITISH• Well trained

army • Best navy in

the world

Advantage for whom?

• 1/3 of all colonists were undecided about loyalty or war

I’m on the fence!

Bunker Hill – 1st major battle

• Patriot Colonel Prescott leads his men to Breed’s Hill overlooking Boston Harbor.

• British Gen Howe leads an attack on them.

Bunker Hill becomes 1st major battle

• Prescott’s famous order: Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

• It took Howe’s men three advances to take the hill.

What does the British victory prove?

• Brits will be hard to beat.

• Americans can fight very bravely.

Short celebration for Brits- they leave Boston

• Washington assembles troops outside Boston

• Knox brings in cannons from Ft. Ticonderoga

Short celebration for Brits- they leave Boston

• Washington places cannons overlooking the city

• Howe sees cannons, then leaves and goes to Canada-Cont. Army takes Boston

• King George orders blockade of ports.

• He sends German mercenaries, called Hessians, to fight colonists.