Battle of Lexington Images

Image 1
What do you see in this image?
Both sides are firing at each other and mad

What evidence does it provide about what happened at the Battle of Lexington?
It provides that their is no side to blame

Image 2
What do you see in this image?
One side looks like the bad guy firng upon them

What evidence does it provide about what happened at the Battle of Lexington?
The army dont look very nice and are the killers

How is Image 2 similar to Image 1?

Their is a army firing

How is Image 2 different from Image 1?

But the people are not firing back their running like they did not do anything wrong

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 Battle of Lexington

Document A
Sourcing (Answer these questions before reading the document.)
1) Who was John Barker?
an officer

2) What kind of document is this? from a diary

3) When was this written? April 19 1775

4) What do you predict this document will say?

It is what happended john during his time and duties and what he saw and could be the truth
not bias.

Close Reading
5) According to this document, what happened at the Battle of Lexington?
The people fired first and then a officer fired without ordered

6) According to this document, who fired the first shot at the Battle of Lexington?
the people had fired

Reliability
7) Do you think this document provides a trustworthy account of what happened at the Battle of
Lexington? Why or why not?
I think it does becuase he saying from both sides the will help any side for the case.

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 Document B
Sourcing (Answer these questions before reading the document)
1) Who were the authors of this document?
34 minute men

2) What kind of document is this? justices of the peace

3) When was this written? April 25 1775

4) What do you predict this document will say?

The people side of the battle and could or could not be bias.

Close Reading and Corroboration

5) What details about the Battle of Lexington do Documents A and B have in common?
They both said the same time it was when started.

6) What details about the battle are different?

The people said that they were fired upon by the soliders and they did not fire once and they
kept firing until everyone escaped.

Reliability
7) Do you think this document provides a trustworthy account of what happened at the Battle of
Lexington? Why or why not?
I dont think so because it just sounds way to perfect that the soliders are the complete bad
guys and that they did not do anything wrong it does not make sense.

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