Declaration of Independence

      The declaration of Independence was a document accepted by the continental congress on July 4 1776, announcing that the Thirteen Colonies where now independent Fro  The British Empire The declaration itself as written by Thomas Jefferson, and it contained an explanation of why does the Thirteen Colonies were proclaiming their independence from the British. The declaration contained many grievances against king Gorge the Third, it also contains a phrase that is to be said as “One of the best-known sentences in English Language” and also known as "the most potent and consequential words in American history". The lines follow like this:

       “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, among these are Life, Liberty, nad The persuit for Happines .”

 By our times, the constitution is kept under strict surveillance; a copy is usually presented to the public in The National Achieves in Washington D.C. The date of its signing has been controversial. Most historians have concluded that it was signed apparently a month after its presentation, on August 2, 1776, and not on July 4 as is commonly believed. The constitution was signed by 56delegates on the Continental congress.

 

The continental Army

 

The continental army was an army created after the outbreak of American Revolutionary War, soldiers were from the colonies. They where guided by Americas first president Gorge Washington. The continental Army was created to coordinate the military efforts that the colonies had towards the British forces.  Some of their most important battles where:

Siege of Boston

Battle of Long Island

Battle of Harlem Heights

Battle of Trenton

Battle of Princeton

Battle of Brandywine

Battle of Germantown

Battle of Saratoga

Battle of Monmouth

Siege of Charleston

Battle of Camden

Battle of Cowpens

Battle of Guildford Court House

Siege of Yorktown

timated that the army counted on about 14,000-16,000 man, but historian’s state that the number can be lowered onto 11,000 because of desertions. By 1783 after The Treaty Of Paris ended the war, most of the army was deserted. Only some kept loyal to it, later on the Continental Army became the basis of what we know as The United States Army.

Thomas Jefferson

     Thomas Jefferson, born in April 13, 1743,  was the third president of the United States of America and the most influential author of the Declaration of Independence. He is also known as one of the Founding fathers and he once said that he saw America as an “Empire of Liberty”.

 

     He was the governor of Virginia from 1779 until 1781, he was also named as the first United States secretary of state from 1789-1793. Another important place he accomplished was as the second vice president of the United States from 1797 until 1801. He supported the idea of separation between the church and the state, and was the creator of the Virginia Statue of Religious Freedom; witch took 7 years to be completed.  He also was the co-founder and leader of the Democratic-Republican Party, which governed the United States government for 25 years. 

     He was from a prominent planter family, and owned many salves during his life, he died on July 4 1826, and he died from uremia, severe diarrhea and pneumonia.

The epitaph of his grave, written by himself, follows:

"HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON

AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA."

And below it:

Born   April2. 1743. O.S.

Died  July 4. 1826

Thomas Gage

Thomas Gage, he was born in 1721 and died in England, 2 April of 1787 In 1754, T.Gage was sent to North America to fight in the French And Indian War. He was named the military governor of Montréal in 1760 and he was promoted to major general a year after. He became the commander of British soldiers in North America. He was an aggressive man and this helped against the colonists and it helped to the American Revolution. He married, 8 December 1758 with Margaret Kemble, her dad was president of the council of New Jersey. Gage fought in the Battle of the Bunker Hill, it was his first major battle of the American Revolution.

Thomas Gage enforced the Intolerable Acts by closing the Boston Port and suspended the Representative government in the colonies.

Boston Tea Party

     The Boston Tea Party took place on december 16, 1773. It was a direct protest from the colonist who lived in Boston, against the British gob¿vernment, and the East  India Company, who supplied and controled the te incoming into the colonies.  A force between 30-130 men went, some disguised as mohawk indians, entered three vessels, witch contained the majority, if not all, the imported tea. It took theme between three to four hours for theme to throw all the tea to the water.

     It is said that Samuek Adams was involved in the planning of the Boston tea party, nothing could be proved. Although after these events occure, in the following days, he wa one of the biggest promoter  of it. He firmly approve it nd said that these acts were not bandalim, if not the last resort, that colonist had to defend their constitutional rights.

According to some writers the Boston tea party wasnt known by that name until 1834, it was known as the "destruction of tea". According to some writers by those times censorhip was very in use. The Boston tea party was an acted that showed immorality and destruction of property, so it was banned for the writers.These changed by the 1830 when the story started spreading all around the world.

Boston Massacre

     The Boston Massacre occured on marc 5, 1770, i was an incident btween the British red coats, and some of the civilian colonists.

          These riot occured when a group of read coats were bypassing and encoauntered themselves with a crownd of angry colonists. After many insults and threaths by the colonists, the British red coats didnt hassitated against the colonits, and opened fire. Amog the crowd, eleven people were injured, and 2 of those eleven, died afterwards. Although these event seemed veyry rought and savage, it was one of the fundamental pilaars in the begingn of riots, witch later led to what we nkow today as the glorious "American Revolution".

     The very beginig of these dispute took place when    a young  wigmakers aprentice named Edward gerrish called on an officer that he had not payed some imposed taxes. The offucer ignored the insults and whent away, but came later with some other soldiers. Then another man joined Edward and started to throw rocks onto the soldiers, later on they started arguing in a higer vaice tone, and these made the nearby people come to see what was happening. And a big crowd started forming, and when the soldiers felt all the preasure, it was then when they fired.

      Later on th soldiers wer judged but none of theme got the ounisment they deserved, although they were acused with charges of murder.

Sons of Liberty

 Sons of Liberty was a club formed that had a very strong frase or motto, It said "Join or Die". The members got into the homes of the tax collectors and beat them and burned their homes.The British sent 40,000 soldiers to help the tax collectors which didnt help alot since the sons of liberty outnumbered them.Traders smuggled goods in and out of their towns to keep from paying the British taxes.
Their leader was Samuel Adams, they were mainly in the cities of Boston, New York and Providence.
Adams became the tax collector of Boston. When he founded the Sons of Liberty, he became a leader. On March 5, 1770, a mob surrounded ten British soldiers, who panicked and fired the mob, killing five men. Samuel Adams termed the incident a "massacre".

The Sons of Liberty consisted of traders, lawyers, and prosperous artisans. They organized the lower classes such as sailors, dockworkers, poor artisans, apprentices, and servants. In every colonial city, mobs fighting by the name of the Sons of Liberty burned stamp collectors, insulted them on the streets, tore down their offices, and attacked their homes. All stamp agents in the colonies, had quitted their jobs before the Stamp Act officially became law on November 1, 1765.

Tarred and feathered

In a Tarred and Feathered attack, the Tax collector the crowd chose was to be stripped to his waist. Hot tar was  poured onto the person while he was being hold by the other Patriots. Then the victim  had feathers thrown on him and was rolled around on a pile of feathers so that they stuck to his body.Sometimes the victim was shown around town on a cart so the other ones could see him and be afraid.Their goal was to give them enough pain on a person to cause him to quit his job or leave town.

Tar could easily be found in the shipyards and everyone had feathers in their pillows.Like the materials were easy to get, tarring and feathering was a common threat and punishment. Although the tarring was not so painful, it was extremely unpleasant.

The first victim of this tarred and feathered in America was in 1766 it was Captain William Smith , he was tarred and feathered, and dumped into the harbor by a mob. He was picked up by a boat, he was found beat up. Tax collectors would no longer work or even be in town because they feared the patriots would go and get them tarred and feathered or even burn their houses down, so their fear grew greatly and they quit their jobs.