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2G The Birth of the USA, 1760–1801

General Gage and the Road to Lexington

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Overview

Recall questions on the territorial and religious terms of the Quebec Act and on the orders to Gage that brought on fighting.

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Answer each one before you reveal it.

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Key term

Who was appointed military governor of Massachusetts in 1774, and for what purpose?

Key term

On what date did the Battles of Lexington and Concord occur, and what did they mark?

Process

What did the Quebec Act contain, why did it anger colonists, and whom did Britain send to govern Massachusetts in 1774?

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    Who was appointed military governor of Massachusetts in 1774, and for what purpose?

    Model answer

    General Thomas Gage, to enforce British authority

  2. 2

    What orders given to General Gage led directly to armed conflict?

    Model answer

    Orders to seize colonial military supplies

  3. 3

    What were colonial militias?

    Model answer

    Locally organised citizen-soldier forces that provided the initial armed resistance to British troops

  4. 4

    Who were the Minutemen?

    Model answer

    Militia members who pledged to be ready to fight at a minute's notice

  5. 5

    On what date did the Battles of Lexington and Concord occur, and what did they mark?

    Model answer

    19 April 1775; they marked the outbreak of armed hostilities between British forces and colonial militias

  6. 6

    Why did British troops march to Concord, and what happened when they arrived?

    Model answer

    To seize colonial weapons stores; they were met by armed resistance

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