RW: ChoiceBoard- "The First Shots" Slide Three

The_______________Bridge is the place where the British and Americans fired the first shots of the Revolutionary War.

• East

• West

• North

• South

The _______________ were the soldiers who were youngest and strongest, and could be ready to fight most quickly.

• special forces

• minutemen

• Green Mountain boys

• swamp foxes

Thomas Gage was upset the Americans had stolen ______________ and sent the British Army to Concord to get them back.

• food supplies

• ammunition stores

• steel bayonets

• armaments

Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott were called ___________ riders because they let the colonists know the British had started marching.

• rough

• lightning

• thoroughbred

• alarm

A group of British soldiers marched to ___________ Farm.

• Barrett

• Franklin

• Hancock

• McGregor

In Concord, the townspeople asked the British to stop the ___________ .

• flood

• fighting

• fire

• fleeing

There were _________ British soldiers killed at North Bridge.

• 2

• 12

• 22

• 32

When British soldiers started marching back to Boston, there a was a ____________ on the left side that allowed the Americans to not be detected as they gathered and gained more people.

• valley

• plateau

• precipice

• ridge

The group of small battles that started at Marian Hill and went back towards Boston were called the ______________ battles.

• attrition

• breakthrough

• running

• decisivie

At end of these battles, the British lost ___________ soldiers (killed, wounded or missing) and the Americans lost ___________.

• 300 & 93

• 3000 & 930

• 30 & 9

• 13000 & 9300