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.