Opinion Swings Toward Independence

He was an immigrant from England and use to be a tax collector, he write the book "common sense" it was publish january10, 1776 Paine wrote in a style that common people understand.The congress voted that America was free 2 days later aproved declaration of independence. Thomas idea was "all man are created equal" "unalienable rights"can not be take it away, unalienable by any government. The radical corse for the colonies to follow was independence from britain, republican state government.

loyalists opposed the patriots demands

Many were ordinary farmers and artesans, loyalists dislike the taxes, which were the ones that patriots imposed they resented patriots because they closed the loyalists newspaper , and also because they punished people for criticize them. The loyalists also oppose they that they did allowed freedom , they were violent.

The second continental congress

It was the declaration of independence , the answer for the new englanders was on may 1775 all 13 colonies assemble in philadelphia congress direct the war.The declaration was initially published as a printed broadside that was distributed and read to the public.After 3 month of war congress sent an "Olvie Branch Petition"simbolize peace

George Washington.

George Washington was born on 1732 into a Virginia family. He pursued two interests: military arts and western expansion. From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis.
He felt oppressed by British merchants and blocked by British regulations. As the comotion with the mother country grew intense, he firmly voiced his resistance tot he restrictions.When the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his untrained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last 6 years.He realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British. He reported to Congress, "we should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn."
He died of a throat infection on December/14/1799.

Declaring Independence.

The united States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by The Continental Congress on July/4/1776, which announced the thirteen American colonies then at war with greatt Britain were now independent states, and no longer part of the British empire.

Boston Tea Party.

In 1770, American protests led to Parliament's repeal of the Townshend duties. except for the duty on tea retained by the British as a matter of principle. The colonists demonstrated their displeasure with the remaining tax by drinking smuggled tea. The effectiveness of American resistance was shown in the precipitous decline in tea sales in the colonies a drop of 70 percent over three years.
In 1773 Parliament passed The Tea Act, which grant the English Company the chance to import tea into the colonies. The new regulations allowed the company to sell tea to the colonists at a low price, lower than the price of smuggled tea, even including the required duty. The British reasoned that the Americans would willingly pay the tax if they were able to pay a low price for the tea. The Tea Act required that the requisite tax be collected within 20 days of a ship’s arrival, making December 16 the deadline. A resolution was adopted that asked the customers to return the tea but they refused to. On December 16, the owner of the Dartmouth agreed to sail his ship back to England. This opportunity to ease tensions was abruptly ended, however, when British officials denied permission for the ship to clear the port and began preparations to seize the vessel for nonpayment of the tax. The ship owner expressed his inability of departing to Boston. Later a group of some 50 men, unconvincingly disguised as Mohawk Indians, moved the short distance to Griffin’s Wharf where the three ships were moored. 342 chests were split open and thrown into the harbor. A cheering crowd on the dock shouted its approval for the brewing of this “saltwater tea.”

The Sugar Act.

On 1764 The Sugar Act is passed by the English Parliament to offset the war debt brought on by the French and Indian War and to help pay for the expenses of running the colonies and newly acquired territories. This act increases the duties on imported sugar and other items such as textiles, coffee, wines and indigo dye. It doubles the duties on foreign goods reshipped from England to the colonies and also forbids the import of foreign rum and French wines. Under The Sugar Act colonial merchants had been recquired to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.

John Adams

Born on October/30/1735. He graduated from Harvard as a lawyer. Adams began his education in a common school in Braintree. He secured a scholarship to Harvard and graduated at the age of 20.
Adams became a prominent public figure in his activities against the Stamp Act, in response to which he wrote and published a popular article, Essay on the Canon and Feudal Law. He was married on Oct. 25, 1764 and moved to Boston, assuming a prominent position in the patriot movement. He was elected to the Massachusetts Assembly in 1770, and was chosen one of five to represent the colony at the First Continental Congress in 1774.
He was elected Vice President of the United States under George Washington in 1789, and was elected President in 1796. Adams was a Federalist and this made him an arch-rival of Thomas Jefferson and his Republican party. The discord between Adams and Jefferson surfaced many times during Adams' (and, later, Jefferson's) presidency. This was not a mere party contest. The struggle was over the nature of the office and on the limits of Federal power over the state governments and individual citizens. Adams retired from office at the end of his term in 1801. He was elected President of a convention to reform the constitution of Massachusetts in 1824, but declined the honor due to failing health.
He died on July/4/1826.

Massachusetts Colony Act

The colony was under the control of the government,is one of the intolerable act.
The elected assembly was a closed colonies the privileged to rule themselves then in march the parliament passed a bill that taxed the colonies for money "Stamp act".The act required that printed materials will be produced on stamped paper produced in London carrying an embossed revenue stamp.

Taxation without Representation
Some colonies believed that if they accepted the tax they had to accept the rest.some colonists thought it was a conspiracy from the British to destroy American Liberty see it like a threat for liberty.The colonists protest as selfish mind, had the right to low taxes in every part of the empire the parlament didn't say to the colonists.The British imposed taxes to resolved the England Economic problems

Stamp Act

In 1765 the new minister George Grenville proposed raising money by making duties already in place,he reinforced the law and the duties went down also the unpopular law of the quartering act required the colonies to supply a place to sleep and food to english troops.

Patrick Henry

Born on May/29/1736. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1765.
Elected governor of Virginia and re-elected for three terms and then succeeded by Thomas Jefferson. He was again elected to the office in 1784. Patrick Henry was a strong critic of the constitution proposed in 1787. He was in favor of the strongest possible government for the individual states, and a weak federal government. He was also very critical of the fact that the convention was conducted in secret.
Patrick Henry is perhaps best known for the speech he made in the House of Burgesses on March 23, 1775, in Saint John´s Church in Richmond, Virginia. The House was undecided on whether to mobilize for military action against the encroaching British military force, and Henry argued in favor of mobilization:

´´Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!!´´.

Historians today observe that Henry was known to have used fear of Indian and slave revolts in promoting military action against the British, and that according to the only written first-hand account of the speech, Henry used some graphic name-calling that failed to appear in Wirt's heroic rendition. in 1798 President John Adams nominated Henry, special emissary to France, but he had to decline because of failing health. He strongly supported Joh Marshall and at the urging of Washington stood for and was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates as a Federalist. However, three months prior to taking his seat in the state legislature, he died of stomach cancer on June 6, 1799.

House Of Burgesses.

It was the first legislature anywhere in the English colonies ( July/30/1619). The House of Burgesses soon became a symbol of representative government. Among the 22 members was the governor, who was appointed by officials of the Virginia Company in London. The governor in turn appointed six important members of the colony to be his council. The other 15 members were elected by the colony as a whole, or actually men over 17 who also owned land.
The House of Burgesses, which met at first only once a year, could make laws, which could be vetoed by the governor or the directors of the Virginia Company. This continued to be the standard until 1624, when Virginia became a royal colony. At this time, England took much more control of things in Virginia, restricting the powers of the House of Burgesses.

Patrick Henry introduced seven resolutions against the Stamp Act in 1765.