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11/2/2012 Simran Chambers The American Revolution

The Boston Massacre 1770

The Boston Massacre happened on

At the intersection in front the old state house . (it happened on the opposite side of the street as the memorial.) One of the regulars was hit and fell down. While standing up he accidently hit the trigger on his rifle. Then their were 6 more shots from the regulars. Five were killed and 6 more were injured. How that could have happened we do not know. To the right is a picture that was engraved on a plate by Paul Revere.

11/2/2012 Simean Chambers The American Revolution

Boston Tea Party 1773

Boston Tea

Party

The regulars put taxes on

tea.

Stamp Act

Taxes

What led up to the American Revolution?

Taxes

• The British tax the colonies without their say in what they want and if they deserve the taxes.

No town meetings

• The British set a rule for no town meetings to keep the colonists from planning anything else.

soldiers

• The British send soldiers to the bigger cities to make sure they stay in line and do not disobey.

Timeline of Events

Battle of road

The colonists fire upon the regulars all the way to Boston.

The Regulars loose this semi battle.

Lexington Green

The regulars split up. The colonists march up to the North Bridge.

Midnight Ride

William Dawes Paul Revere

William Dawes

He was the eldest of 3 children. Born on April 6, 1745. He grew up to be a tanner and was also very active in the Boston militia. He was married to MehitableMay on May 3, 1768. His wife died in 1793. William followed and died 6 years later on February 25, 1799.


Paul Revere

Paul Revere grew up into a family with 12 siblings he always had something to do. He was born January 1, 1735 Boston MA . At age 13 Revere was a apprentice to his father who worked as a silversmith. Later when Revere was grown up he followed in his fathers foot steps and became a well known silversmith. He married Sarah Orne in August 4, 1757. They had 8 kids together. Then Sarah died so Revere remarried to Rachel Walker in October 10, 1773. They also had 8 kids together.


The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere and

William Dawes

9:30 Dawes leaves Boston

10:00 pm Revere is sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren of the Sons of Liberty.

11:00 Revere sets off with two friends to cross the Charles River

11:30 Revere reaches Medford

12:00 am Revere arrive in Lexington

12:30 Dawes arrives in Lexington

12:45 Revere and Dawes meet Prescott

1:00 Revere, Dawes and Prescott meet up with a group of Regulars. Revere is ahead and has enough time to warn Presoctt and Dawes. He is captured. Prescott rides onto Concord.

5:00 am The first shots are fired at the North Bridge. These are the shots that are heard around the world and the start of the American Revolution.


Minute MenDear Diary, April 18, 1775

“The regulars are coming” says Paul Revere to my dear sister Abigail. Then he thunders off down the road riding on his swift, elegant horse Brown Beauty. I shot up in in bed alert and at the ready, as I threw on my hat Abigail raced into my room right as I was jumping out the window to go meat up with the other minute men from our small village of shanglton. “John come back or you will get hurt” yelled Abigail though I had heard her I did not turn around instead I acted as though I had not heard her and sprinted off into the dark, eerie woods. We reached the meeting place about an hour to an hour and a half later with over double what we had started with. Since the guys from Westford had joined us in the woods. Though they nearly scared the wits out of us. We thought that they were regulars coming to shoot us, or at least try.


Minute Men Continued

“Get down and watch” whispered Jack as we were climbing up the hill. As I watched the regulars fan out to the North Bridge and to look for ammunition we all knew that there was some at the farm. After a few minutes we had 400 or so minute men ready to fight. “Will you let them burn the town down?” yelled one of the captains. As we watched, smoke rose out of the city. There were only 95 regulars guarding the North Bridge so we decided to fight even if we had to fight. We marched to the bridge surprising the regulars by how dignified our troop looked. We each stood on one side of the bridge, no one firing until, BOOM! One of the regulars ad fired without an order. This was the first shot of the American Revolutionary War. After a few minutes all 95 of the regulars had fired upon us.

Minute Men Continued

“Fire for God’s sake fire!” yelled the General. Since we had never gotten a command to fire before it took a while to register., but then, as if on cue, we all fired at the regulars, killing two and wounding about 7. Then the most surprising thing happened, the regulars turned and fled to Concord. We all started jumping up and down and celebrating, because we had one the first skirmish of the Revolutionary War. After that no one knew what to do so we climbed back to the top of the hill to think about our next move. Crunch…crunch…crunch we heard looking up to see the whole troop of 195 regulars coming around the bend. They had a funny look on their faces as if something was wrong. Then we realized that the regulars we had scared away were probably holding the

bridge and so when the troop did not see them they knew something funny was going on. Once they crossed the bridge they was the dead bodies lying on the ground. Looking around they spotted us but didn’t shoot and so we pretty much gave them a free pass to Concord.

John

Saugus 1646-1668

How to Create Iron1) You gather bog iron.2) Then you mix it with gabbrow.3) Next you would put your

mixture in the fire to heat it up.4) Once the iron/metal is hot enough you would carefully take it out of the fire.5) Next you would pound the iron

into a cube. 6) Then you would put you already

cubed iron under the hammer and start it up.

7) You would let it cool.8) Then you bring the cube next door to the flattening and spreading mill.9) Then you spread the iron into a thinner shape.10) Last you ship it out to be sold.


Salem Witch Trials 1692Salem is home to the famous witch trials in which 100 were imprisoned and 19 were hanged and one man was pressed to death, because he refused to put his head un the noose. You may who started this terrible time in history? It all started on a sunny day in Salem Village a beggar Sarah Good was with her only child, a girl about 10 years old and they were knocking on the door of the preachers home while Ann Puttman and her sisters were home playing their father the preacher answered the door and gave Sarah a bit of food while walking away Sarah muttered her thanks but the preacher thought that she was cursing him, through the devil him self. At dinner that night Samuel Parris told his family what had happened that day. A couple days later Parris’ kids started acting funny.


Lowell Textile Mills

LowellLowell was a well known textiles mill in 1821. A textiles mill is a factory along the river, the factory hires young women and children, these workers would use the machines to help them weave and tighten cotton. Many girls and women who lived on farms often left home to work in textile mills to earn money for their farm back home. Often times the workers lived in dorms near or in the factory. Then they would send the money they had earned over a certain amount of time home so that the people their could use it.


Early Childhood• John was born on May 29,1917 in

Brookline Massachusetts. He grew up in two houses. Being the second of nine children. There was a lot expected from John even at an early age. One of his sisters rosemary had problems with her brain. Though most people at that time thought of it as necessary to send children with problems away so that others did not judge them for having such children. The Kennedys had their own thoughts. Instead of sending Rosemary away they kept her at home.

Early Childhood• Each week every week Johns

mother Rose Kennedy would weigh each child and then measure them. If one child had gained weight then she would make him or her exercise but if they lost weight they would have to stay indoors and eat more. Rose would keep all this information sorted by name and date in a small box on her desk. John was not very healthy as a child he got many diseases as a child including smallpox, scarlet fever, measles and many others . At age three John and his family moved to a bigger house a few blocks away.


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