![]() You know the rest.These 32 interactive digital task cards on the BOOM Learning website review key people of the American Revolution.ģ2 multiple-choice cards ask questions about the following (shuffled randomly): John Adams, Samuel Adams, Ethan Allen, James Armistead, Benedict Arnold, Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Franklin, Nathanael Greene, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, John Paul Jones, James Madison, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, George Washington, Abigail Adams, Betsy Ross, Deborah Sampson, Martha Washington, Mercy Otis Warren, Molly Pitcher, Phillis Wheatley, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Marquis de Lafayette, Comte de Rochambeau, Baron von Steuben, Joseph Brant, Charles Cornwallis and King George III. Who at the bridge would be first to fall, When he came to the bridge in Concord town.Īnd the twitter of birds among the trees,Īnd felt the breath of the morning breeze ![]() When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.Īnd the meeting-house windows, black and bare, Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides. Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge, He has left the village and mounted the steep,Īnd beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,Īnd under the alders that skirt its edge, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. The fate of a nation was riding that night Īnd the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light, Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,īut lingers and gazes, till full on his sightĪ shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,Īnd beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.Īnd lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height The belfry tower of the Old North Church, Now he gazed at the landscape far and near,Īnd turned and tightened his saddle girth On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere. On the rising tide like a bridge of boats. Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread, ![]() On the sombre rafters, that round him madeīeneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead, Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church,īy the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,Īnd startled the pigeons from their perch Marching down to their boats on the shore. The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,Īnd the measured tread of the grenadiers, Meanwhile, his friend through alley and street Then he said "Good-night!" and with muffled oarĪnd a huge black hulk, that was magnified ![]() Through every Middlesex village and farm,įor the country folk to be up and to arm." Of the North Church tower as a signal light,. He said to his friend, "If the British march On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five Paul Revere's heroic actions in the cause of American freedom were immortalized in this poem which recounts the story Paul Revere's midnight ride of April 18-19, 1775 to warn the Massachusetts countryside of the coming British invasion. Paul Revere's Ride Paul Revere's Midnight Rideīy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Among these "Indians" was Major Thomas Melville, the same who suggested to me the poem, The Last Leaf."įast spread the tempest's darkening pall, About seventeen persons boarded the ships in Boston harbor, and emptied three hundred and forty-two chests of tea. To prevent the dreaded consequence, a number of armed men, disguised like Indians, boarded the ships and threw their whole cargoes of tea into the dock. It was easily seen that the tea would be gradually landed from the ships lying so near the town, and that if landed it would be disposed of, and the purpose of establishing the monopoly and raising a revenue effected. The captains of the ships had consented, if permitted, to return with their cargoes to England, but the consignees refused to discharge them from their obligations, the custom house to give them a clearance for their return, and the governor to grant them a passport for going by the fort. The inhabitants tried to send them back, but in vain. The East India Company, however, sent out a number of tea-ships to different American ports, three of them to Boston. Their objection was not to the amount, but the claim. But it involved a principle of taxation, to which the Colonies would not submit. "The tax on tea, which was considered so odious and led to the act on which A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party is founded, was but a small matter, only twopence in the pound. Holmes' account of the background of this poem is as follows: Read at a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1874.
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