The Second Continental Congress

After the revolutionary war it was decided to form a second continental congress. This congress assembled representatives from the colonies, this time from the 13 of them. The second continental congress happened on May 1775. This congress was form after the war to take responsibility of it.  This congress took place in Pennsylvania States House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They took executive and legislative power. Armed volunteers from middle and southern colonies marched north to join patriots that had seized Boston. The congress gave the leadership of army to George Washington. They wanted to declare independence from Britain.

Boston Massacre

Boston Massacre! This terrible event started March 5th 1770.

British started abusing the colonists, they were sending soldiers to the colonies to make sure that they were fallowing the rules as the British wanted. All this started creating tension between soldiers and colonists. Soldiers weren’t happy about this and some were looking for other jobs because they were paid few for their work as soldiers.

On this evening of march a soldier looking for other job step on colonist territory and was encountered by angry colonists. All this anger was created by the tension around them, soldiers al around them! So they took advantage so the angry mob started attaking the soldier.

All this conflists provoced a first shot even though soldiers didn’t wanted to attack colonists, the several shots started appearing, as a result 5 civilians rest dead. All this continued until it was taken to trial. After all the massacre justice was made, only 2 soldiers were charged for commiting a crime.

Townshend Act

The Townshend Acts are named for Charles Townshend. He started with this idea of taxing colonists indirectly, this way of taxing was more reasonable than others. This acts were passed in 1767 by the British Parliament. This were made because Parliament needed to raise money to get out of England’s debt so they easily passed this laws and people couldn’t elect any member of the Parliament soy they say these as a violation.

They decided to levy new taxes on the colonies of British America, on products that were used in everyday life-Lead, glass, tea, paper, and paint. This money raised was used to pay to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule. This way colonists wouldn’t have any rights over governors and judges.

Intolerable Acts



The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, which, among other provisions, closed Boston's commerce until the British East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea.

Also called the Intolerable Acts, this acts were made mainly to restore the order after the Boston Tea Party. This were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, this included, Boston Port Act, Quartering Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quebec Act and Massachusetts (4 of this were directly in response to the Boston Tea Party). With this, they were preventing colonists to challenge the Parliament authority.

Colonist started seeing this Acts as an abuse to their rights and in 1774 they organized the first Continental Congress to protest against them. In my opinion the colonists thought wisely, and made a good decision doing this congress, it was a better way to protest against the British Parliament than other ways of acting like the Tea Party.

The Boston Tea Party



After all the protests made by colonists, all taxes were repelled (1770) except for the taxes on TEA.  People started this movement against Tea Act called de Tea Party, this movement was passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Protesters had successfully prevented the unloading of taxed tea in three other colonies, but in Boston, Thomas Hutchinson refused to allow the tea to be returned to Britain. He never expected colonists acting in another way than we thought. People started the boycott and this gave problems to the British East India Company.

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. A group of colonists disguised themselves as Indians, the dumped 342 trunks of tea in all.



Stamp Act

On March 1765 the parliament passed a bill and wanted to raise taxes from the colonies. This is called THE STAMP ACT. This included newspaper, books, court documents, land deeds, and contracts. The colonist protest about this because they paid so many taxes they were left with nothing so they started to argued about this, that they didn't had any representation at the parlament. And then they thought if they let them impose taxes once they would be adding more and more taxes. They thought that the stamp act reveled the british conspiracy to destroy american liberties. The Colonist were complaining about the Stamp Act so the parlament thought that the colonist were being selfish and that their empire needed money, the colonist did not accept this argument.



THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

As many people can imagine The French and Indian War was not a war between Indian and French but a war between England and France, French and Indians alied. The fought over the Ohio River Valley. This war started in the year of 1754 and lasted until 1756, that's why its name "Seven Years War". The british troops were commanded by George Washington, at first suffering loses, but then British using a better strategy and blocking shipping from Frensh started dominating the war and captured Quebec and Montreal between 1759 and 1760. The most important man on this british side was William Pitt who increased British military resources in the colonies, after this british entered and took over the French territory easily. At the end this war ended with the Treaty of Paris, with british having most of the land and with little claims from French and Spanish.