![]() ![]() Standard 1B- The student understands the principles articulated in the Declaration of Independence. Standard 1A- The student understands the causes of the American Revolution. United States History Standards for Grades 5-12Įmbattled Farmers and the Shot Heard Round the World: The Battles of Lexington and Concord relates to the following National Standards for History:Įra 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s) Topics: The lesson could be used in units on the Revolutionary War or in courses on conflict resolution. This lesson is one in a series that brings the important stories of historic places into the classrooms across the country. Percoco, Director of Education for the Friends of the National World War II Memorial and a former high school history teacher, and edited by Teaching with Historic Places staff. This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration file, " Minute Man National Historical Park” (with photographs), and historical and modern accounts of the battle. They can pass the graves of two English soldiers killed in the exchange of gunfire across the Concord River, examine French’s sculpture, and walk along the shade lined “battle road.” Today, in this tranquil setting, how can one help but ponder how a nation could rise from the ashes of an event that was never supposed to happen?ġ Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Visitors can stroll across Concord’s Old North Bridge. One of history’s greatest unintended consequences proved to be the nascent seed that launched a revolution, forever changing the world. ![]() Within twenty-four hours, more than 70 of the King’s finest troops lay dead and many more wounded. His objective was to destroy the cache of colonial weapons located in the town of Concord. Instead, these minute men and members of local Massachusetts militia assembled to defend their rights, as they perceived them under English law.īritish General Thomas Gage had ordered 700 soldiers to march in what he thought was a clandestine operation. Independence was the furthest thing from their minds. At that time the riders and farmer alike were still loyal subjects to England’s King George the III. Rather, the riders warned that the King’s troops were on the march, arousing the embattled farmers praised by Emerson. They did not shout “The British are coming! The British are coming!” as myth would have us believe. Emerson’s words were incised on the stone pedestal.Ī century before, a group of express riders, including Paul Revere, rode across the Middlesex County countryside. In April 1875, for the Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Concord, another Concord native, sculptor Daniel Chester French, created his first great public work. Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the most noted residents of Concord, Massachusetts, penned these words for the town’s bicentennial in 1835. "By the rude bridge that arched the floodĪnd fired the shot heard round the world.” 1 This lesson is part of the National Park Service’s Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) program. ![]()
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