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.

The Stamp Act, and Boston tea Party

The stamp Act begin in 1765. In the Stamp Act congress from the 9 colonies decided consumers boycott. In the Stamp Act the woman's were the one who pay all the important roles, when the British stop with manufacturing, they started to used homesput to substitute the British manufacturing.
The Stam Act was repeal in 1766. There were 13 colonies in which 9 colonies decides to used the Stamp Act in October in 1759.

The Stamp Act met a great resistance,. The colonists sent no representative parliament. The Stamp Act Congress held in the New York City.

There were 3 tactics that the colonists used to protest British taxes.

- intellectual protests ( the Virginia results)
- economic Boycotts ( non important agreements )
- violence intimidates ( feathering and tarring)

Boston Tea Party were not like people having fun in a party with tea, we're not in that way, we're in the way as a revenge. The british t dressed as Indians to confused the Brish and became with a lot of tea and throw it no the river.
Instead to buy the tea, the British protest because of the taxes. So they began to protest against them because they need to pay taxes for tea because they though that they were the only one who can put taxes to the other people.

John Adams

John Adams was born on October 30 in 1735 and he die in July 4, in 1826. John Adams was the second president in the United States of America, he begin as a president in 1797 and end he's career as president in 1801, but earlier he return to the government as a vice president of the United States of America.But John Adams were not only a president he also were a statesman, diplomat and a leading advocate of American independence from Great Britain. He also became a lawyer and public figure in Boston as a delegate from Massachusetts.

John Adams were a very important person, he assisted Thomas Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He also help to negotiate the peace treaty with Great Britain. Adams also wrote the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780, which influenced the American political thought.

One of greatest roles in the government was that he were a judge os character. In 1775, he nominated George Washington to be commander in chief.

In 1800 John Adams lose in the reelections against Thomas Jefferson. Later on he became friend again with Jefferon. He were the father of John Quincy Adams, the six president of the United States of America. He die in 1826 at the age of 90 years, the same day of the 50 anniversary of the Indepence Delcaration. Earlier hours Thomas Jefferson die. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were 2 important people in the United States of America.

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Sons of Liberty.

The Sons of Liberty was a group of American Patriots that started the Revolution to accomplish at the end the Independence of the Unites States. This group was created in intentions of protecting the rights of the colonists, and also to protests and do whatever is necesarry against the levy of taxes. This group have two memorable moments that influenciated a lot in the American Revolution that was the Boston Massacre and the Boston Te Party in 1733 that was a form of revenge of the Massacre and because the British still didnt want to understand that the Colonists wouldnt accept that type of taxes or any tax at all. Because of the Boston Te Party the Parliament passed a law in 1774 to eliminate any type of colonial resistance against the tax imposal.

This group started in the year of 1765 by Samuel Adams, but it was not named Sons of Liberty it was called Boston Caucus Club that was a small group of peolpe who wanted to defend their right and get a representation in the Parliament because all of this conflicts first started by the colonists not having any type of representation in the British Parliament. The Boston Caucus Club consisted mostly in artisians, merchants, and tradesmen. While time was passing in Boston there were other type of groups that started to emerge with the same intentions such as the Loyal Nine, that were a group of professionals protesting of the taxes. Later on all the groups that existed were joined together and they called themselves The Sons Of Liberty with e motto that exclaimed No Taxation Without Representation.

The Sons of Liberty with time they created a formal underground organization and also they elected their member and leaders. Many important people joined this group such as Samuel Adams, Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Edes, John Lamb, James Otis ect. The Leaders of the Sons of Liberty were practically from the middle class. In many cases their meeting turned violent because not always they agreed to the ideas proposed and they wanted vilolence acts instead of words and documents so they were incharge of burning, destroying, tortoring any British that was considered as a threat. An example is the Tathering and the Feathering that consisted that any member of the group was incharged to pour tar and feathers to stamp colectors or the tax colectors. This created tention in the government and in the bussiness because now no one will agree to colect taxes because they would be beat up by them. Another example is when they burned down the house of the Massachusets Govenor Thomas Hutchinson that eventhough he was not a British still they burned his house down because of being the Govenor of Massachusets. In 1767 they adopted a flag and named it the Rebellious Flag, consisted of nine uneven vertical stripes five red and four white. There were nine stripes because in that time only nine out of thirteen colonies were against Britain.

French and Indian War

Mostly known as the Seven Year War. This war iniciated on 1689 and concluded on 1763. Mostly the poeple think that when they hear French and Indian War they assumed that was a war of the French vs. the Indians, but in reality this war was between the Fench allied with the Indians vs. the British. This war involved Austria, England, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Sweden. This war was fought all over Europe, India, and North America because were ever there were British and French colonies, this colonies will fight between them because it was mostlt about a territory conflict. In Europe Austria, France and Sweden were allies to eleimiate king Frederick the Great, the King of Prussia. On the other hand, on the same time in North America France allied with the Native Americans to fight for colonial domination against Great Britain. This caused a huge economical conflict for England because there was lack of money and debts started to appear so they came to the idea to tax for everything the colonist which this act was one of the principal that led to the Revolutionary War afterwards.

The French and Indian War led to many oppositions between France and England because as time passes population started to grow but also they require reasources that are sent directly to England by the Navigational Acts. So the British came to the idea to tax every 6 pence of gallon of molasses in 1733 or the Sugar Act. This was the first direct tax to the colonist and by this the colonists started to get angry. To make things clear taxation with no representation was the principal cause that led to the revolution, there were also a lot of diferent causes that led to the revolution but the taxes furioused the Colonists.

By 1763 the peace was made between France and Great Britain, the part of Canada that belonged to the French was otorged to Britan, but also the state of Florida that belonged to Spain was gaved away to the command on Britain, Louisiana instead was ortoged to Spain in exchange of Florida. France at the end could stay with their West Indies Islands. France played an important role for the American Revolution because after the Franch Revolution against Louisse the XVI France started to help America to get their independence.