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Early Battles Around Boston The first battles of the Revolutionary War were fought in and around Boston, Massachusetts. Study the map below. Then complete the activity and answer the questions that follow. The Fighting Around Boston, 1773–1776 LEGEND: Apr. 18–19, 1775 routes P R Revere Br D Dawes
Prescott British
Scale: 1 inch = 4 miles (approx.)
REVERE AND DAWES ARRESTED; SAMUEL PRESCOTT CONTINUES RIDE April 18, 1775
CLASH BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICANS Apr. 19, 1775
Concord • P CLASH BETWEEN ➞
• Bedford
• Burlington • Woburn
• Lexington RD B ➞ r
BRITISH AND AMERICANS Apr. 19, 1775
Menotomy Medford
• Waltham WASHINGTON TAKES COMMAND July 5, 1775
• Watertown
➞
Newton •
Powder House
Ch a rles River
800 BRITISH TO CONCORD Apr. 18, 1775
Brookline • R
nd
Po
r ive
WILL DAWES’S RIDE Apr. 18, 1775
My
Br ➞
Mu d d y
Ja m a i c a
R ➞
• Melrose
PAUL REVERE’S RIDE Apr. 18, 1775
• Roxbury
D ➞
T h e Nec k
ic
st
Cambridge
D ➞
• Brighton
N
• Wakefield • Stoneham
• Malden BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL June 17, 1775
kR ive r
Bunker Breed’s Hill Hill Charlestown •
Boston
Old North Church
Beacon Fort Hill Hill
“TEA PARTY” Dec. 16, 1773
12,000 BRITISH ARRIVE March 1775
AMERICAN CANNON CAUSE BRITISH EVACUATION March 17, 1776 Dorchest er H eight s
Adapted from map “The Boston Region” from The Growth of the American Republic, Volume 1, 7/e, by Samuel Eliot Morison, Henry Steele Commager, and William E. Leuchtenburg. Copyright © 1980 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Rerinted by permission of the publisher.
MAP ACTIVITY 1. Use a bright color to trace the route Paul Revere took on April 18–19, 1775. 2. Circle the names of the two waterways that Will Dawes crossed on his ride from
Beacon Hill to Cambridge.
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Early Battles Around Boston, continued
3. Use a second bright color to draw stars at the site of each clash or battle. 4. Use a dark color to trace the part of the route that Samuel Prescott rode alone
after the arrest of Paul Revere and Will Dawes. ANALYZING MAPS 1. Sequence What is the first event shown on the map? What is the last event shown
on the map?
2. Place Where did the British land when they arrived in March 1775?
3. Movement Describe the route the British traveled to get to Concord.
4. Location Study the map and locate the Powder House, where the colonial militia
stored its gunpowder. Next, determine where British troops were concentrated before April 1775. Why might the American militia have chosen to maintain the Powder House at its location?
EXTENSION ACTIVITY April 19 is a public holiday in Massachusetts called Patriots Day. Use the library or search the Internet to find information about this holiday. Then plan a Patriots Day celebration for your school.
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