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2009 DBQ: (Form A) From 1775 to 1830, many African Americans gained freedom from slavery, yet during the same period the institution of slavery expanded. Explain why BOTH of those changes took place. Analyze the ways that BOTH free African Americans and enslaved African Americans responded to the

"Don't fire until you see the white of their eyes! Then fire low!" - Isrial Putnam's. This famous quote came from one of the Patriot Leaders in the Battle of Bunker Hill. This battle was the first major event of the American Revolutionary War in 1775. It got the name The Battle of Bunker Hill because it was thought to be on Bunker Hill but it was actually on Breed's Hill located next to Breed's hill in Boston, Massachusetts. About 1,000 British soldiers died and we did not have a well trained army

Introduction Did you know that Lexington and Concord was a small fight? The Battle of Lexington and Concord was fought on April 19, 1775. Tension had been building up for many years between the British and Colonists. On the night of April 18, 1775, British troops marched from Boston to Concord in order to take weapons from the colonists. Paul Revere had found out this information and so he and other colonists moved the weapons. Paul Revere and other riders sounded an alarm. Colonial military men

When the colonists got mad and were rebelling British acts, Thomas Gage, governor of what is now Massachusetts, also took action by making orders to seize Patriot supplies. Gage started taking responsibly on April 14th, 1775 when he got a letter to take force against the Patriots. In response to the letter he ordered to seize and destroy colonists artillery, ammunition, small arms, and tents and the only way for this plan to be successful was to make it very secretive

After the bloodshed at Lexington and Concord in April of 1775, about 20,000 Minutemen swarmed around Boston, where they outnumbered the British. The Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775, with no real intention of independence, but merely a desire to continue fighting in the hope that the king and Parliament would consent to a redress of grievances. It sent another list of grievances to Parliament. It also adopted measures to raise money for an army and a navy. It also selected

considered citizens, and mistreated by their masters. As time went on slaves began break free from slavery after the civil war and during the reconstruction period where the 13th,14th,and 15th amendments were added to the constitution. During the period of 1775 to 1830, though it was a short time, was a high point for slavery in that change was starting to happen before the civil war. The major changes and continuities in the institution of slavery can be seen through the areas where slavery was most common

Where it was located in Little Yorktown, they called it Battle of Yorktown ( Siege of Yorktown. ) It started on April 19, 1775, about 5 a.m. 700 British troops, on a mission to capture some Patriot leaders and to take hold of collections of weapons of the Patriots. Now they march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker command waiting for them on the town’s common green. British Major John Pitcairn commanded the outnumbered Patriots to spread. After a moment’s pausing

land,North Carolina, South Carolina, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island. The colonists wanted to be free from the England. They started to fight the soldiers of the English army in 1775. The Americans started a war with England. We call it the Revolutionary War. The American Revolution was on April 19, 1775 and is called the “shot heard around the world” It was named that because the hand draw action of the battles of Lexington and concord an the siege of Boston

The Revolutionary War took place between April 19, 1775 and September 3, 1783, when the thirteen original colonies desired freedom from Great Britain. The initial battle of The Revolutionary War was The Battle of Lexington and Concord, which took place on April 19, 1775. Other famous battles included The Battle of Bunker Hill (June 1775), The Battle of Quebec (December 1775), The Siege of Charleston (June 1776), The Battle of Trenton (December 1776), The Battle of Saratoga (October 1777), The

On April 19, 1775, at Lexington and concord, a battle between American troops and British troops broke out. According to Nathaniel Milliken and 32 Militiamen, the British fired first at the American troops and continued to fire at them until American troops finished fleeing the American troops fired after the first bullet was heard to protect their soldiers. (Nathaniel Milliken and 32 Militiamen). In the American textbooks it also argues that British troops fired first and started the Revolution