The commander of the British forces in North America, General LexingtonFort TiconderogaThomas GageLoyalistsPaul RevereSelect your answer, led 700 soldiers to Concord, Massachusetts to seize all arms and gunpowder. Two friends, a silversmith Paul RevereConcordFort TiconderogaindependenceThomas GageLoyalistsSelect your answer and a shoemaker William Dawes, raced on horseback to Lexington and Concord ahead of the British to warn the minutemen. About 70 militia fought British in Lexington.

The colonial ConcordmilitiaindependenceLoyalistsvictorySelect your answer won the battle at ConcordLexingtonFort TiconderogaQuakersmilitiaSelect your answer and the British attempt to seize all weapons in LexingtonConcordFort TiconderogaThomas GagevictorySelect your answer was unsuccessful. Inspired by Patrick Henry's oration, "Give me liberty or give me death," the House of Burgesses voted to break with Great Britain. The British supply post, victoryLoyalistsindependenceFort TiconderogaConcordSelect your answer, was taken without bloodshed. Bunker Hill, however, was a costly British victoryLoyalistsmilitiaQuakersindependenceSelect your answer.

Not all colonists were ready to break from Britain. Many colonists still had family in England. Others had grown accustomed to trading with England. Colonists were divided into three ways of thinking. victoryLexingtonmilitiaLoyalistsPaul RevereSelect your answer remained loyal to Britain. Others wanted militiavictoryindependenceConcordLoyalistsSelect your answer. A third group included independencemilitiaThomas GageQuakersLoyalistsFort TiconderogaSelect your answer who were against war and would not take sides.