Click2History - Highlights of the American Revolution - Chapter 4

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION</p> <p><font size=4>CHAPTER 4 - COLONISTS REBEL<br></font></font></b><br> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Within months of his arrival as the new Royal Governor, General Gage seized the arsenal of weapons the people of Massachusetts had accumulated in <a href="http://www.charlestown.ma.us/timeline.html" target="_blank"><b>Charlestown</b></a>. As tensions mounted between the Crown and the colonies, the <a href="http://www.history.pdx.edu/hst201dj/firstcc.htm" target="_blank"><b>First Continental Congress</b></a> assembled in Philadelphia between September 5 and October 26, 1774.</p> <p>One of the first things the new Congress did was <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/28/4/28-0315a.gif" target="_blank"><b>pray for wisdom</b></a>. Days later the delegates declared their opposition to the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts, stating they are "not to be obeyed." By October 14th, representatives had passed a <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ll/lljc/001/0000/00760073.gif" target="_blank"><b>Declaration and Resolves</b></a> that included these famous words:</p> <center><font face="times new roman" size=3 color=000000><b><i>...to these grievous acts and measures,<br> Americans cannot submit...</i></b></font></center> <p>With the Crown unwilling to compromise, and the colonies desiring independence, war seemed inevitable. By February 1, 1775 <a href="http://media.nara.gov/media/images/43/12/43-1111a.gif" target="_blank"><b>John Hancock</b></a> and Joseph Warren began preparations for a state of war between the colony of Massachusetts and the Crown. Within a week, Parliament declared Massachusetts in a state of rebellion. By the next month, <a href="http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/f0505s.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Patrick Henry</b></a> from Virginia had delivered his <a href="http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/henry-liberty.html" target="_blank"><b>impassioned speech</b></a>: </p> <center><font face="times new roman" size=3 color=000000><b><i>Give me liberty or give me death!</i></b></font></center> <p>Death, in fact, was waiting for ten patriots in the town of Lexington, Massachusetts as "The Horse America" took the first steps to "<a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/photo03.jpg" target="_blank"><b>throw his master</b></a>." </p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="patriot_ch3.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="patriot_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER  </a>   <a href="patriot_ch5.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>