L E X I N GT O N A N D C O N C O R D

AT THE DOOR OF WAR

OPENING

• Read the following excerpt from Patrick Henry’s Speech.

• Prompt Question:• Patrick Henry was trying to convince the colonists

that …

PATRICK HENRY

• No man thinks more highly than I do of patriotism… For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery… Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose them? Shall we try argument?

• The war is actually begun! … as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

OBJECTIVES

• SE: 8.4A Analyze the causes of the civil war. Determine the impact of Lexington and Concord.• 8.4B Analyze the impact of Patrick Henry and

Thomas Paine

• LO: Students will complete video notes for Lexington and Concord. Complete a person analysis for Thomas Paine.

LEXINGTON AND CONCORD(BACKGROUND INFO)

• With the Intolerable Acts in effect some colonists were ready to fight for independence from England.

• At the towns of Lexington and Concord colonists were preparing to resist. Colonists began storing guns and ammunition to fight against the Redcoats.

• When the Redcoats heard of the storage they dispatched soldiers to seize the arms(guns and ammo) from the colonists at Lexington and Concord.

LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

• Watch the following video “The Shot Heard Round the World” and complete the video study questions.

THOMAS PAINE

• Just like Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine began urging colonist to separate from England. In his pamphlet Common Sense he told the colonists that their was not a single advantage the colonists could gain from remaining a part of England.