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.