Second Continental Congress

don’t have. With this in mind, I’m going to try to tell you all of the significant leaders during the American Revolution in my power. First of all, let’s start with Major General Nathanael Greene. Greene was the youngest brigadier general in the continental army (Logan). Greene became close friends with the commander-in-chief,…

Thomas Jefferson had been chosen by the Continental Congress in June of 1776 to write the Declaration of Independence although he had nominated John Adams he had denied the nomination and had said “ I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise” (Time p 1-2). Adams had rejected the nomination and had restated that Thomas Jefferson was the opposite of him and was the right person to pick it had proved that Jefferson was the perfect guy to write one of the most…

George Washington was a highly favored and blessed man. A man of integrity, a man of valor, and an emboldened man who people loved. George Washington was a man of repute who was a monumental figure in founding our country. One of a kind and infamous in the eyes of our country. George Washington has placed his mark on history. Centuries later he is a legend of our starving and desolate country. Whose very freedoms that he helped to establish and fought for are at stake. George Washington was an…

Weakness of the Article of Confederation During the course of the Second Continental Congress in 1777, the Articles of Confederation were adopted for the proposal of a central institution. This meeting started in 1775, gathered many of the most brilliant minds of that period at Pennsylvania. Delegates were sent from the thirteen colonies to represent in the convention. The convention was a series of meeting, on the attempt to solve political and social issues. One of the major concern was the…

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…

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…

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…

The members of the Committee of Five were John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson. John Adams was a lawyer, statesman, writer, diplomat, and second president of the United States. He was an advocator of republicanism and a strong central government. Roger Sherman was born in 1721 is Massachusetts. He studied law and became a judge. He proposed the Great Compromise, which needed a two part legislature, one of which was represented based off of…

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, but he stopped his…

1. Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, was responsible for writing this document. As shown in this letter to her husband, Abigail Adams was an advocate for the political equality of women and was not afraid to demonstrate her belief to her husband. Based on the sophisticated style of writing found in this letter is it fair to assume she was born into a wealthy family that could afford to educate her (at least in the field of literature). This is evident when she finishes her paper by telling…