Washington Crossing the Delaware River

This picture yoy see above is a painting of George washington crossing the Delaware river. This scene shows fear in some men and determination in another because they were going to go to a big battle, but what they didnt know was that the german soldiers were having some fun drinking. The Americans surprised them after the Cristmas night. This is the start of strategies for war.

The Olive Branch Petition

John Dickinson drafted the Olive Branch Petition, which was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5 and submitted to King George on July 8, 1775. It was an attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown. King George refused to read the petition and on August 23 proclaimed that the colonists had "proceeded to open and avowed rebellion.

Loyalists

Loyalists were British North American colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the American Revolutionary War. They were also called Tories or "King's Men". Those Loyalists settling in what would become Canada are often called United Empire Loyalists. Their colonial opponents, who supported the Revolution, were called Patriots, Whigs, or just Americans. From an American perspective, the Loyalists were traitors who turned against their fellow colonists and collaborated with an oppressive British government, from a Canadian and British perspective, the Loyalists were the honourable ones who stood by the Empire and the Crown, while the American rebels were the traitors.

Historians estimate that about 15-20% of the adult white male population of the thirteen colonies were Loyalists. An often cited statement by John Adams, in which he seemed to suggest that about one-third of the people were Loyalists, was taken out of context and did not refer to the sentiments of the colonists.

The Colonial Soldiers

The colonial soldiers werent as present day soldiers. Soldiers in England were beggars, farmers, low laborers. and even some thieves who were trying to avoid going to jail. They were well paid in the british colonies. On the other side we have colonial soldiers, the militia. They were wealthy people, people that didnt need to be in the army but they participated because they fought for one reason, liberty. The colonial soldiers fought as indians hiding and shooting from behind trees while the soldiers of England were in a row shooting, a very traditional, but with little efectiveness.

Paul Revere

Paul Revere (bap. January 1, 1735 [O.S. December 22, 1734] – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution.

He was celebrated after his death for his role as a messenger in the battles of Lexington and Concord, and Revere's name and his "midnight ride" are well-known in the United States as a patriotic symbol. In his lifetime, Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston craftsman, who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military.

Revere later served as an officer in the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, a role for which he was later exonerated. After the war, he was early to recognize the potential for large-scale manufacturing of metal.

The Second Continental Congress

The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met briefly during 1774, also in Philadelphia. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. By raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties, the Congress acted as the de facto national government of what became the United States. With the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1781, the Congress became known as the Congress of the Confederation.

Paul Revere Ride

Lexington and Concord

In 1775 British government stop taxing the colonists and started to ignore them. And this was leading to a war of independence. In April of the same year, the colonists leadears were in a Massachussetts Congress and they agree to take out General Thomas Gage from leading this colony. some of them were Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The British government ordered Thomas gage to arrest this leaders but they were already in home in lexington. So the general very angry send his army to concord to destroy some arms and amunnition he heard the colonist had stored there. Thomas Gage arrange his troops and on April 18, of 1775 he was going to attack bostonians. Paul reviere get the news that British were going to attack so he went on his horse trying to deliver the message. He arrived on midnight and gave the famous message to John hancock "THE BRITHISH ARE COMING". Later British troops arrived and people form lexington most known as minutemen were formed ready to fight with the British. they were ordered to disperse but they didn't do it so someone fired a shoot and all started shooting. After the shooting, 8 minutemen were dead. When British were going back to boston, a big group of minutemen hide behind some trees and started shoting the british.

THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM

The Amerivan Revolution??? lol !!!

The Quartering Act

Established June 2, 1774, the Quartering Act of 1774 was similar in substance to the Quartering Act of 1765.

The Quartering Act applied to all of the colonies, and sought to create a more effective method of housing British troops in America. In a previous act, the colonies had been required to provide housing for soldiers, but colonial legislatures had been unhelpful in doing so. The new Quartering Act allowed a governor to house soldiers in other buildings if suitable quarters were not provided,While many sources claim that the Quartering Act allowed troops to be billeted in occupied private homes. Although many colonists found the Quartering Act objectionable, it generated the least protest of the Coercive Acts.As we can see the Quartering Act of 1774 was similar as the one in 1765 the only thing that it change is that the soldiers would have housing.

The Quebec Act

The Quebec Act was a piece of legislation unrelated to the events in Boston, but the timing of its passage led colonists to believe that it was part of the program to punish them. The act enlarged the boundaries of what was then the colony of "Canada" (Today's Province of Quebec and Province of Ontario) removed references to the Protestant faith and guaranteed free practice of the Roman Catholic faith. The Quebec Act offended a variety of interest groups in the British colonies. Land speculators and settlers objected to the transfer of western lands previously claimed by the colonies to a non-representative government. Many feared the establishment of Catholicism in Quebec, and that the French Canadians were being courted to help oppress British Americans.

The Boston Tea Party

Britain was getting out of money. King GeorgeIII ans Lord Townshend needed to raise money for his government. The government was getting poor and many people were brought into prison because they couldn't pay their debts. King GeorgeIII and Lord Townshend knew the answer to his problem.The colonist were supported with soldiers, supplies and livelihood so they neede to tax them things so they could have money. They taxed glass, lead, paper, paint and tea that were shipped to the colonies.
The colonists were dissatisfied with this new law. So they make a plan to stop using all these materials so the tax was removed. In 1770 their plan worked very good and all the taxes were repealed all except the tea tax.
Colonists started smuggling danish tea but the company of britain tea realize it and removed the danish tea. In 1773, the company of britain tea sent a ship, loaded with britain tea, to the boston harbor. In the night a group of colonists disguised themselves as indians and enter the ships and threw away the tea. When the King and parliament knew about this they got very angry.

The Boston Massacre

In the early to mid 1700's Britain sen governos to rule the colonies in America. The governor of the place made laws with the approval of the king of England. The king send soldiers to verify that the rules were followed. In 1765 the parliament made a law so that the colonists could make their houses available to the soldiers. The colonists weren't happy with this law.
The soldiers also didn't liked this law because they were far away from their families and their pay was not really good. The soldiers started looking for other jobs so they could have some money, but the good jobs were already taken by the colonists.
In March of 1770 one soldier was looking for job and he enter a public house were some colonists were drinking for a while.When they saw the soldier they light up and angrily all the mob of colonists followed the soldier yelling at him and throwing him snowballs. He refuged in his encapement where other eight soldiers and the captain went and helped him. The captain order all soldier to hold their fire but one was so afraid that he accidentally fired a shot that was followed by more shots. When peace came back they realized there were 5 colonist dead.

All the soldiers were taken into custody. They were charged with murder; But a lawyer named John Adams realized that this wasn't fair.He made a persuasive speak and made people to see that this murders were just a self-defense act against the mob.As a result the charge was dismissed to all soldiers except for two but this time was not a murder charge, instead it was a charge of manslaughter. These 2 soldiers were marked with a brand placed on their fingers so anyone that saw them knew that they had made a crime.

Townshend Acts

were a series of acts passed at the begginig of 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain. The acts are named after Charles Townshend because he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. Historians vary slightly in which acts they include under the heading "Townshend Acts", but five laws are frequently mentioned: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act.

The American Revolution

The American Revolution was a political disorder in which the thirteen colonies of norht america bond together and become free from the british empire and became the United Stases of America; happening this at the second half of 18th century.The revolutionary era began in 1763, when the French military threat to British North American colonies ended.