LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

Lexington and Concord Battles are conciderated  as the first military war in the American Revolution. They were fought on April 19 of 1775. These Battles created an amred conflict between  Britain and their thirteen Colonies.

By the year of 1775 the British decide not  to ignore what was happening in the Colonies. the English secretary of state Dartmounth ordered to Lt. General Thomas Gage to arest all of the leaders of the lebel uprising. Everything could have been perfect  if that order have been sent one day earlier when the Massachusets Congress sembled. That would make thing easier to arest all these people. Some of these leaders such as Johon Hancock and Samuel Adams  had been advised of what was coming. So they had the time to leave the town.

Thomas Gage decides to destroyed all the weponds that were stored in Concord. Also he decided to maintain their plan as a secret so that in this way the plan could be succesful.

At nine a´clock  General Gage gave the order to all his troops to be ready because they were leaving  Boston. He also ordered Lord Percy to follow six hours later with his troops. At nine therty, their secret plan was already known by everybody even the Colonists. William Dawes and Paul Revere were on their way by land going to alarm John Hancock and Samuel Adams that the British troops were coming but at the end only William drawes reached to alarm them.

SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

Everything began in may 10 of 1775 when all delegates from all thirteen Colonies decided to met in Philadelphia, Pensilvania soon after the war had begun in the battles of Lexington and Concord. This Continental Congress had to support  the war effort causing that the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies gathered with all necessary supplies for war

For the first months of struggle Patriots had already  take out loyal officials power, and kept against their will the British army in the city of Boston. On June 14 of 1775 the Congress voted to create the first Continental army, which consisted on civils that will fight for their independence. After this the Congress rapidly appointed George Washington of Virginia as the commanding general of the Continental Army.

Some radical patriots that were part of the Continental Congress wanted to declare independence as soon as possible, although they new that most of the colonists were not ready for it yet because at this point  still most of the Colonists wanted to remain under British Government control.

In july 17 of the same year Continental Congress sent to the King of England “the oliv brach petition”, which is a special document that means peace. The King later rejected and answere them by sending more troops to the Colonies.specially Boston.

Boston Massacre

The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed.
The presence of British troops in the city of Boston was increasing but they wre not welcome.The problem began when about 50 citizens attacked a British part. A British officer, Captain Thomas Preston, called in additional soldiers, and these too were attacked, so the soldiers attack into the mob, killing 3 on the spot.
A town meeting was called demanding the removal of the British and the trial of Captain Preston and his men for murder. At the trial, John Adams and Josiah Quincy II defended the British, leading to their life and release. Samuel Quincy and Robert Treat Paine were the attorneys for the persecution. Later, two of the British soldiers were found guilty.

The Boston Massacre was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War. It led directly to the Royal Governor avoiding  the occupying army from the town of Boston. It would soon bring the revolution to bring rebellion throughout the colonies.

Samuuel Adams later release a letter in which organize a network of local commitees corespondance, this network was set through Massachusets they organized it a way that each town new what was happening, this provided leadership and cooperation. In 1773 several other colonies unify once again to the parliament.

Intolerable Acts

The Colonist were outrage because  coarts were closed, and they had to house the troops, and allow British officials to go back to Britain. All this new Acts were not  accepted by the Colonists,so the called these the Intolerable Acts.
In 1774 the following Acts aware the Intolerable acts:
1. Boston Coart Act
2. Quartering Act
3.Quebec Act
4. Administration of justice Act
5. Massachusets goverment Act


 As a result stores were closed because they did not had good to sale, soldiers lost their jobs thanks to the closing of the coarts untill Colonists pay for the tea. British did not like Colonists because they could, shut guns, change clanist goverment, and traid.

In rural Massachusets people regected the British actions with violence, the protested with violence, gunes, and weapons. So anybody who accepted  a job from the crown or goverment would  be in danger of being attacked or asolt by any Colonist.

Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party is one of the most important events in the American Revolution.This protests originate when the Colonists started complaining about the tax the British had put on every day life ecencial products, such as paper glass and most important in this case TEA.o Colonists then decides to stop buying wichever tea that camed from England, and started buying smogle tea from the Duetch that did not had tax. As this protest continued the British East Indian Company was being siriously affected because Colonist did not buy their tea. So the parliament decided to allow the Company to sell the tea directly to the colonists causing that at the end British tea was chipper than the one they smogle from the Duetch, even with the taxes allready charged.But for all this that was happening Colonists did thought that British were trying just to trick them making them buy their tea and pay the taxes.

So on Dicember 16 of 1773 the Boston Patriots took maters into their own hands and so they dressed as Indians and went to the Harbor where three ships full of British tea had arived, they boarded the ships and destroyed all the tea by thowing it into the ocean. So all this revelion was given the name as The Boston Tea party which is one of the most famous incidents in Ameican history.

Colonial Protest Intensify

There are 3 ways in which colonies protested:

Intelectual Protest:                 Colonists made:

                                                     * Speeches

                                                     * Made Pamphlets

                                                     * Published in news paper
                                                     * Drafted resolutions
                                                     * Sermons
All this ways were use to persuade the colonists not to accept any taxes.




Economic Protest: Colonists will not use any products imported from Britain, this agreement was called"Non Importation Agreement". This agreement take merchants to ruin so as a result of this boycott people had to start producing all those products that came from Britain, so women took a very important role because they were the ones incharge of spinning thread and weaving cloth. Women were called " Daughters of Liberty".




Violent Protest: Some men form an assossiation named the "Sons of Liberty whos most famous leader was Samuel Adams, were the responssible of many violent proitests done in the settlments. These violent protests were por often due in Boston.
In August of 1765 a mob leadered by The Sons of Liberty went and destroyed the tax collectors house as well as withThommas Hudgenson´s house. Bostonians did not accept anything that had to do with the Stamp Act and whomever spoke of this or act in favor of it will get in a lot of trouble. A very violent way in wich colonists protested was the ¨The Tarred and Feather¨. This protest consists of  putting very hot tea inside the tax collectors´s throat and then put inside  feathers.All these protests terroried all tax collectors.

Important Events on the Revolution