Remember that you have two assignments tonight. 1) Complete your foldable. One side has four details about the Intolerable Acts, the other has four details about the First Continental Congress. There needs to be a picture on the front of each window and a sentence or two on the inside describing the detail. Details could be:
Intolerable Acts
- Government Act
- Justice Act
- Port Bill
- Why the acts were created
First Continental Congress
- Came together to respond to the Intolerable Acts
- Each region had their own idea about what to do
- Congress came up with the Declaration of Rights and Grievances
- British refused ultimatum and sent more soldiers to the colonies
You can use your NOTES on this section to help you
2) You need to watch the video and answer the following questions.
1. How many British soldiers were on the march towards Lexington and then Concord, Massachusetts?
2. Why were the British soldiers going to Concord?
3. How many militia men were waiting at Lexington to fight the British soldiers?
4. Who had come to warn the colonists that the British were coming?
5. What was the first Battle of the American Revolution? Who won?