First Continental Congress

This new nation, as it implied in the Declaration by saying that the state would be governed by the people and for the people, was to be founded upon democracy. The Declaration of Independence was the first written and formal document which both declared freedom from a state and proclaimed the right of them to choose their own government. This document paved the way for much of modern democracy and was a source of influence for many other states all around…

affiliated to Britain. We could be going through the suffering of drowning in taxes and being treated unfairly. The cause of this madness would be, because men did not re-enlist during the Revolutionary War. During the years of 1777 and 1778, the Continental Army was stationed at camp, named Valley Forge, to spy on the British camp. The general, George Washington, was losing men due to them non-re-enlisting. The whole camp had a specific and definite question in mind. “Should I re-enlist for…

The best known as one of the Founding Fathers of Declaration of Independence and also the Constitution of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston. His father married twice, with his first wife he had seven children and with his second wife he had ten more. Benjamin was his 15th child and he was the youngest son. His father was soap and candle maker. Benjamin learned to read when he was at a young age. Attending to Boston Latin School was a success to him,…

able to send his son to grammar school.” (Ayer 91). Ushistory.org stated that, ”Thomas began helping his father by apprenticing for his father but he failed again.So now age 19 Paine went to sea. This adventure didn’t last too long, and by 1760 his first wife died. Thomas became a tax collector in 1762 but that only lasted three years because of an improper entry. ”Thomas published The Case of the Officers of Excise (1772) arguing for a pay raise for officers.(ushistory.org Web) Paine’s move to…

Patrick Henry Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1736, to John and Sarah Winston Henry. A symbol of America's struggle for liberty and self-government, Patrick Henry was a lawyer, patriot, orator, and willing participant in virtually every aspect of the founding of America. Henry married Sarah Shelton in 1754, and after Sarah’s death, wed Dorothea Dandridge in 1777. With his two wives, he fathered seventeen children. John Henry, who had attended King's College, University of…

Quick, who was the first president of the United States? George Washington, right? Wrong! Now on to the million dollar question: who said the famous quote: “Let them eat cake”? You said Marie Antoinette right? Wrong! In Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” we read: “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right… Time makes more converts than reason.” In other words: If you tell an untruth long enough, eventually, it becomes history. In thinking of…

signed the Treaty of Paris they gave up large amounts of land that belonged to the Native Americans. The Indians were now viewed from a colonist 's perspective as a conquered race living in that territory illegally, even though they were truly there first. Over the next century people would continue with the idea of expansion and move out in the west to take over lands that were occupied by the Indians. Several wars were waged between the white man and Native Americans. The Revolution unleashed…

the colonists and led the people to rebel against their king. Throughout the revolutionary war, the people began to have different thoughts on their political future. There were 3 “Classical” Positions in the 18th century thru late 19 century. The first was the radical position, the thoughts on this was to be an example, of a Utopian society where equality and freedom are the main priority. Second, the liberal position, believed that to maintain…

On July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence became one of the founding documents of the United States of America. Addressed to King George III, the king of Great Britain it explains the grievances of the American colonies and that they were leaving the British Empire. The preamble of this great document reads, “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, that among these are Life, Liberty and…

“[They were] appointed by the Massachusetts Colony General Court in 1775…to question their fellow Massachusetts women who were charged by their word or action of remaining loyal to the British crown and working against the independence movement” (First Lady). This more proactive role in the preliminary governments of the colonies was also replicated on numerous occasions by other women of the time. Take for example Martha Washington, who founded the Ladies Association in Pennsylvania which was…