Continental Congress

With a newfound land but old British rule a bloody conflict was bound to happen, the American Revolution was the conflict that ensued from the power struggle between the colonies in America and the British government that changed the history of the world forever creating a land free from British rule which we know today as the United States of America. This political battle between Great Britain’s thirteen colonies: Delaware, Rhode Island, Virginia, Maryland, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts,…

American forces led by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold. Burgoyne’s troops were not as strong, therefor, Burgoyne attacked the Continental Army again at Bemis Heights on October 7th, but this time they were defeated and were forced to retreat. Burgoyne surrendered ten years later. October 1777, the victory at The Battle of Saratoga gave France the assurance in the Continental Army. As a result, France felt confident entering the war as an American ally. Americans owed much of their success to…

DBQ 3 During the mid and late 1700’s Britain had full sovereignty of the North American colonies. Since Britain controlled them , the colonies did began to prosper but they noticed that Britain was holding them down to their full potential of prosperity with these restrictions and limitations that were laid out to them. The colonies weren’t able to establish an independent nation that they desired and decided to rebel against Britain. These rebellions were all started from economics ,…

British strategy called for crushing the rebellion in the North, several times the British nearly defeated the Continental Army. But victories at Trenton and Princeton,gave many American Patriots hope, and let to victory at Saratoga, New York. In 1778, the fighting was relocated to the south part of America. Britain succeeded in taking over Georgia and Charleston…

How to Help Homeless Veterans In 1775, the Continental Army was formed by the Continental Congress to raise an army to fight against the British. Since that day, brave men and women have fought and died for this country. Some of those brave men and women that have fought for our country didn’t die. Some of them lived, and some of those men and women are living on the streets. There’s now a big problem in our country. They risked their lives to defend our nation against its enemies and now they…

The American Revolution grew out of contempt for British policies regarding their American colonies. In this shared contempt as the eve of revolution drew near the colonists developed a sense of identity and unity. Edmund Burke wrote, in his notes to Parliament, questions as to whether small unrepresented towns in Britain could be compared to the vast, and ever expanding American colonies. In his work he argued that any comparison between the two were stark and that they should be allowed to…

that lingered in the new country was the matter of writing a constitution. At first a constitution was written with a Bill of Rights, different from the one today. This does not work well so they write the Articles of Confederation in 1777. In 1787 congress meets to improve the Articles of Confederation because it is also failing. They decide on a Republic but two different types of states have two different ideas. The first plan created was the Virginia Plan. In the Virginia plan, the first…

A chain of a multitude of back to back events all contributed to the initiation of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775. All of which included social, religious, economic, and political factors. There’s no one event that can be recognized as the commencement of the revolution. It all began from a controversy and difference in opinion over the way in which Great Britain treated the colonies as opposed to the way colonies thought they should be treated. Right after England established…

even angrier. The intolerable acts cause the First Continental Congress it was a group of 55 delegates representing 12 of the 13 colonies. They came together to send the declaration of rights and grievances to the king. This was the United States declaring a revolution. Tensions were far too high for the king to respond in favor of the colonist. This caused the Battle of Lexington and Concord. This thing called for the second Continental Congress which ultimately led to the Declaration of…

eyes and realized that a new day had dawned upon us. I had just woken up from somewhat of a sleepless night. It was the twenty eighth day of the month of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five. The second continental congress was convening in Philadelphia days from now and I was asked to represent Massachusetts again. Massachusetts, specifically Boston, had seen a lot of pain these last several months. British ships have been docked at the port and redcoats…