Patriots

- George Washington
- Thomas Jefferson
- Benjamín Franklin
- Ethan Allen
- Foreign Allies
- Barón von Steuben
- Marquis de la Fayette
- Thomas Paine
- Patrick Henry
- Nathan Hale

Loyalist and Patriots: Patriots

After the French and Indian War that ended in 1763, The 13 colonies became divided in their feeling toward Great Britain. They wanted to remain English and loyal to King George III of England. They were called themselves Loyalist or Tories. About 1/3 of the population support England. This people want to separate from Great Britain and form a a new country. The people who supported a revolution were named as Patriots.
There were many important people that were patriots, they were the sons of liberty and also were leaders of the patriots.

Patriot Leaders:

General George Washington
All the American Army were made of soldiers from all the 13 colonies, it were called as the Continental Army, and this guy General George Washington were the leader. He were in charge of all the soldiers in the army. This army were not good at all because there were a lot of farmers in tar army.

Thomas Jefferson 
He was a lawyer during the American Revolution. Jefferson was a member of the secondContinental Congress and also he were governor of Virginia. He wrote the Declaration of IndePendence that explain how do the 13 colonies separate to form a new country. Jefferson have the idea that people can choose their own governor. After he convert into the third president of the United States of America.

Benjamin Franklin 
Benjamin Franklin helped organized the Commited of Correspondence. He also helped to correct the Continectal Congress with were all together against British rules.
Franklin also traveled to England because he want to protest the laws that the English put and also because of the taxes.

Others Patriots: 
- Ethan Allen 
- Foreign Alleis 
- Baron Von Steuben 
- Marquis de Lafayette
- Thomas Paine
- Patrick Henry 
- Nathan Hale

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine was born on January 29 of 1737 in Thretford, England. His father was a corseter and for him education for his son ment everything, but Paine at age 12 dopped out school. Then he started to apprentice his father's work, but again he failed. At age 19 he left to his first travel oversea. Then in 1768 he became a tax officer in England. In 1772 he publishes his first book called " The Case of the Officers of Exice", that talked about and argument of increasing the salary of the tax officers. In 1774 he met Benjamin Franklin ( founding father ) in London, and Franklin helpped Paine to migrate to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania becoming a journalist.

In 1776 Thomas Paine published a book that changed the entire ideology of the Colonists called " Common Sense" that was like a defense of the American Independence from Britain. He worked, fought with the Continental Army, didnt was a good soldier but in the year 1776-1783 he published another book called "The American Crisis", which even Washington read it to his soldiers personally to inspire them to continue inthe fight and never give up. An interesting fact is that this pamphlet became so popular and was read by so many people that the percentage of the reading was greater than the percentage of people who assist to the Super Bowl. Paine came up until one point that he left the Continental Army and returned to Europe serving as a worker on smokeless candles and iron bridges. In 1791-1792 he wrote " The Rights of Man" as a criticizer of the French Revolution. This caused Paine to be arrested for the charges of anti-monarchist views, but he left to France to join to the National Convention.

In 1793 he was sent to jail being in France because of not supporting the execution of King Louis XVI. While being in prison he wrote what is known as his best work, that is an anti-church book called The Age of Reason in 1794-96. But before of the publishing he was released from prison in late 1794 because of the help of James Monroe, who in that time was the U.S Minister in France. He remained in France until 1802 when Jefferson invited him to come back to America. At the end he died on June 8,1809, but knowing that his contributions to the American Revolution was "eradicated" because of his religious views.

The Second Continental Congress

The second continental congress started on may 10, 1775 in Philadelphia; this event consisted at first of twelve delegates from different colonies except Georgia. Almost all the delegates were from the first continental congress. Few delegates join this movement; some of them included Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and new president of the continental congress, John Hancock.  At the end the second continental congress consisted of sixty-five delegates.

  

Benjamin franklin wanted independence but the other delegates didn’t like these ideas because they think America was not ready for breaking relations with Great Britain. Although many delegate like this ideas because the Lexington and Concord battle just had happen. Although the independence occurs after he was the first on to propose such event. Later on was John Hancock who continued this idea.

The second continental congress decided many important thing in may 15 1776 , they decided to declare independence from great Britain and put colonies in protection . They knew they should protect there colonies so the made other decision of creating a stronger army with they called American continental army. This army started on June 14, 1776 commanded by George Washington. The second continental congress also decided making paper money, which was printed in the end of the year.

Boston Massacre

The Boston massacre occurred on March 5,1770. Colonists where throwing snowballs, stones and many other things to the British soldiers. One solider was been hit. Although the soldiers had strict rules that they couldn’t fire at any colonist, they did. They killed five colonist the first colonist that died was Crispus Attucks. The others were Samuels Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell and Patrick Carr.

During this time Boston and other Americans colonies pass through many tension, all this tension start since the royal troops were send. The British lawyers (king) were sending troops to enforce the taxes. This event first happens in Massachusetts in October 1768. As America was in tension they receive the news of the Boston massacre and this was the end of that tension.

This event is attribute to the seven-year war or the England and France war. After England won the war, England needed money because this war leaves them with many liabilities. So they needed the colonist taxes, but the colonist where unlikely with the taxes. As people protested and they were angry with taxes collector. The governor Thomas Hutchinson asks for troops for maintaining order and peace.

Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams

Patrick Henry was born on May 20, in 1736, he were born in Hanover County, Virginia. He were a lawyer and also a Politician. In 1765 Patrick Henry were elected to House of Burgesses. He also were admitted to he Bar of the general Court in Virginia in 1759. Patrick Henry was elected to the Continental Congress in 1774. With the time he were the Virginia Militia Leader on 1775, and he end his career as the governor of Virginia in 1776 to 1778, and ended in 1784. Wen he was 10 years his family know that Patrick Henry were not going to be a Farmer. Patrick Henry were married at the age of 18. When here 21 his father send him to a business trip.

In 1765 patrick Henry proposed the Stamp Act Resolution, earlier that year he were ele cted to the House of Burgesses. In 1774 Patrick Henry represented the First Continental Congress. He were reelected as for three terms and them Thomas Jefferson succeeded.In 1795 Patrick Henry was the Secretary of State appointed by the President Washington but later on Henry declined the work. Also the President Adams choose him envoy to France, but he were so bad for health so he fail in his job too. He die on June 6 in 1799 at the age of 63 years.

Samuel Adams.

Samuel Adams was born on September 27 in 1722, he was an American statesman, a political philosopher. He were also one of the Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in Massachusetts. Adams play an important role in his life he were the leader of the movement that became the American Revolution. Samuel Adams was the cousin of the second president of the United States John Adams. Samuel Adams was graduated of the Harvard College. Samuel Adams was part of the movement opposed to the British Parliament.

In 1772 Samuel Adams devised a committed of correspondence system, which link patriot through the 13 colonies. Samuel Adams continued resistance to British resulted in 1773 Boston Tea Party and the coming of the American revolution. Hi did not became a president of the United States of the Americas but he play important roles to the Americas and help a lot with the revolution. Samuel Adams die on October 2 in 1803 at his 81 years.

The First Continental Congress.

The First cntinental congress was united or seted up on September 5 to
October 26 of 1774, taking place in Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Carpenters Hall also served as Pennsylvanias Congress. Twelve out of thirteen Colonies ( all colonies except Georgia ) sent dellegates or representatives to meet to the First Continental Congress. This Dellegates were chosen by the citizens, Colonial legislatures, anf of the correspondence of respective colonies. The purpose of this congress was to agree to write a resolve against Britain but Pennsylvania and New York were in charge of this task, while the other colonies defended the colonial or colonists rights. At the end they camed up with the Virginian delegation or the Virginian Resolves that was written by Patrick Henry, and he stated " GIVE ME DEATH OR GIVE ME LIBERTY" and also he was the firs colonist to accept that he was American by saying " I AM NOT A VIRGINIAN, BUT AMERICAN".

The Congress had to elect some leaders and they chose George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and Peyton Randolph as presidents or rulers of the conventions for each respective colony. But primarly George Washington was elected of head of all the congress. Because this was the first congress the intentions or the objectives were not secure neither clear, but it performed many debates, speeches that will inspire colonists to support them. One result was that in this Congres the Independent Resolves were written, but they had an issue which consisted in how they would get to know every colony every act, debate or something valuable they performed. During this Congress a very important document was written by the colonist Joseph Galloway from Pennsyvania. He wrote The Plan of Union of Great Britain and the Colonies that proposed to create a " Great Council" for later on it would demostrate the colonies as a whole union, and it would be continental equivalent to the English Parliament. In other words what it was supposed to do was to have a General President or a type of king that would represent the English king but in America in intentions for letting them to kbow why the Sons of liberty or simply the colonists are regolving.

By October 14 of 1774 the Resolves and the Declarations were established directly to the congress with the ideology of being a principal act to the twelve colonies that participated. The congress accepted to have a meeting a year later if this type of complains were not attended by England. On October twentieth of this same year the First Continental Congress created a kind of pact called " The Association" that consisted of establishing tactics, rules, mechanisms to control the British armies, and to decrease the number of British resistance. Another reason of way creating this pact was to keep up the communication, or maintaining the communication available between the Colonies that are planning to revolve against Britain. This pact was passed as a type of effect of the None Importation Agreement, but this pact for working as it should be it depended if Britain reduced the Intolerable Acts by the ends of the year 1774.