Patrick Henry and Thomas paine Biography!

Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 - June 6, 1799served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of virginia from 1776 to 1779 and subsequently, from 1784 to 1786. A prominent figure in the American Revolution and Declaration of Independance, Henry is known and remembered for his "Give me Liberty or Give me death!" speech, and as one of the Founding Fathers. Along with Samuel Adams and Thomas paine.

Thomas Paine:

On January 29, 1737, Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England. His father, a corseter, had grand visions for his son, but by the age of 12, Thomas had failed out of school. The young Paine began apprenticing for his father, but again, he failed. So, now age 19, Paine went to sea. This adventure didn't last too long, and by 1768 he found himself as an excise (tax) officer in England. Thomas didn't exactly excel at the role, getting discharged from his post twice in four years, but as an inkling of what was to come, he published The Case of the Officers of Excise (1772), arguing for a pay raise for officers. In 1774, by happenstance, he met Benjamin Franklin in London, who helped him emigrate to Philadelphia.

His career turned to journalism while in Philadelphia, and suddenly, Thomas Paine became very important. In 1776, he published Common Sense, a strong defense of American Independence from England. He traveled with the Continental Army and wasn't a success as a soldier, but he produced The Crisis (1776-83), which helped inspire the Army. This pamphlet was so popular that as a percentage of the population, it was read by or read to more people than today watch the Super Bowl.

But, instead of continuing to help the Revolutionary cause, he returned to Europe and pursued other ventures, including working on a smokeless candle and an iron bridge. In 1791-92, he wroteThe Rights of Man in response to criticism of the French Revolution. This work caused Paine to be labeled an outlaw in England for his anti-monarchist views. He would have been arrested, but he fled for France to join the National Convention.

By 1793, he was imprisoned in France for not endorsing the execution of Louis XVI. During his imprisonment, he wrote and distributed the first part of what was to become his most famous work at the time, the anti-church text, The Age of Reason (1794-96). He was freed in 1794 (narrowly escaping execution) thanks to the efforts of James Monroe, then U.S. Minister to France. Paine remained in France until 1802 when he returned to America on an invitation from Thomas Jefferson. Paine discovered that his contributions to the American Revolution had been all but eradicated due to his religious views. Derided by the public and abandoned by his friends, he died on June 8, 1809 at the age of 72 in New York City.

Patrick Henry " give me death or give me freedom "

Taxation without representation

In the 1760s the British Parliament placed new taxes on the colonies. The 1764 Sugar Act, the 1765 Stamp Act, put taxes and duties on imports such of sugar and tea. The 1767 Townshend Acts placed taxes on printed documents and publications.

Many colonists objected to these acts, claiming that only their elected assemblies had the right to tax them. Since colonies did not elect representative to the Parliament, these acts were seen as illegal, or as the colonists put it "no taxation without representation." The colonists resisteted by coycotting English goods until the acts were repealed. Americans also violently attacked tax collectors to prevent them from collecting taxes.

Declaration of Independence

3 important decicions where taken that made Independance more clearer and near:

* They declared Indpendence from Brittan

* They choosed a Republican role model for their goverment .

* they confederated the 13 colonies and made them what whe now now as The United States Of America.

Colonists took action

Fortunetly for the Massachussets colony other colonies also took action , they viewed British as a thread for Freedom . Delegates from each colony met in Philadelphia . The First Continental Congress included important figures like Patrick Henry , he said the famous quote " give me liberty or give me freedom " he also set up a very important factor for Independence in which was unification he also mentioned new ideals in which talked about being an American that their was no more distinction from being a New Yorker , Virginian ect.....

WAR IS ON!: Battle of Lexington and Concord

The Brittish army was the most powerful of its time, why should they fear a revolution? After all, the only thing you needed to win this war was to capture their leaders and destroy the few weapons they had left.
The plan was to mobilize the troops to Lexington to capture Adams and Hancock and to Concord to rid the colonists of their weapon supplies and ammunition. Now, these plans were supposed to be secret, even to the Brittish soldiers. However colonists spies managed to adquire the info on the attack. Paul Revere along with William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott rode to warn of the colonist attack. Paul Revere managed to reach Lexington and warn Sam Adams and John Hancock so they could escape.

"Paul Revere's Night Ride"

At Lexington the Brittish instead of finding the Adams and Hancock they found an improvised militia waiting for them. The minutemen(called like that for they said they could be ready to fight in less than a minute) were greatly outnumbered and had to disperse at the Brittish' orders. Howerver, someone shot their rifle and the Brittish in defense shot back killing 8 colonists and succeeding in dispersing th colonists.

"Continental Minuteman"

At Concord the colonists had more time to assemble and prepare for the attack. The Brittish knew that taking Concord was crucial. If they controlled the Concord Bridge they would stop the colonists' comunications and seize their upheaval.
What the Brittish found at Concord was not the same as in Lexington. They found an outnumbering army of colonial militia ready to attack. And so they did.
Not only did the colonists won that battle, they nearly obliterated the Brittish forcing them to retreat back to Boston. This epic April 18th would be known as "The Sot Heard All Over the World" for what the colonists had accomplished. A bunch of inexpirienced farmers had defeated a highly skilled and the most powerful army men of the world, the Brittish Troopers. This, was the start of the War for Independance!

"Bring it On Lobbies!"

The life of a soldier has never been easy . In this American Revolution war , 2 main armys fought the English army and the colonial militia also knowned by this name . their where many differences and similarities on the both sides of the armies.

Similarities

Both had war tactics .

Both had uniforms as a demonstration of Diciplinity and Honor to their country.

Both fought for the same piece of land .

Both had horses and muskets .

Differences

English army had redcoat uniform in wich made them a clear blank from far distances away .

Colonial Militia didnt had uniforms they were more an improvised army.

English soldiers had the war tactic of standing in rows to fire and a front row by there knees.

Colonial soldiers fought from what they learned from the British army and from what they learned from the natives in wich was more valuable .

British soldiers went on wars to avoid jail , or because the good pay it offered .

Colonial militia fought from true patriotisim and bravery.

The troopers !

The troopers had to be ready for action , they had to be mentalized that war was harda and tough and once they accepted going to war they had to be willing to be ready to give their lifes for their country , in this case we bring you a video that shows you how cruel and sad war was , from the movie the Patriot with the song The trooper in whcih says in its lyrics the cruelty red coats and colonists had to fight .
Red coats was the name given to the English troops , because of their strong recognized red army uniform , usually revolutionary colonists were recognized with a blue uniform .

Colonists Took actions

As obvious it can appear this " Intolerable acts " had a radical reaction on the colonists in which realized that they couldnt handle any more the fact they were to be controlled by British troops and Justice courts to be the point of income to the british , Fortunetly for Masachussetts that was in deep suffering and indignation the other colonies took action they started to have the point of view that British where a thread to their freedom .
Delegates from each colony met in Philadelfia . They made the first continetal congress in which included Patrick Henry here he said the famous quote " give me liberty or give me death . This brought unification between colonies , they joined in the same colony to get their freedom back by whichever means necessary this included George Washingtons idea of independance.

Intolerable Acts

The Intolerable Acts, as called by the colonists, were the response of the Brittish parliament to the Boston Tea Party and the various protests. These Intolerable Acts were five:

The BostonPort Act: This closed the Boston Port till the East India Company was paid for the lost tea. This created many difficulties for people whose lives and work depended on the Port.

Massachusetts Government Act: This act removed the Massachusetts Charter to lose alot of its independant self government. This angered the colonists for they were very proud of their independance from te crowd and the taking of that independance was an outrage.

Administration of Justice Act: The tird act stated that Brittish Officers accused of crime were to be taken to England to be put on trial. This was a measure by the Brittish to prevent the officers to be unfairly judged. However colonists interpreted this as a way for Brittich officers to escape crimes.

The Quartering Act: This stated that Brittish soldiers were allowed to be quartered in colonist building, including colonists omes if there was no space in other buildings.

The Quebec Act: This act extended the area of the province of Quebec. Quebec was the only province without representatives and this made the Brittish look like they wanted to extend their power over the colonies.

The Boston Tea Party

After the multiple violent protests and the product boycotts colonists finally succeeded in getting the crown to remove all taxes in 1770. All taxes but one: tea. This actually acted in favor of the prices of the tea. English tea had never been cheaper. However boycotts continued, colonists buying only German tea which was more expensive. Eventually, colonists realized they needed a public protest that showed they wouldn't give up on their ideals and principles, a public example.

In 1773 a cargo ship full of Brittish tea arrived Boston. The night before the arrival, a group of colonists led by Samuel Adams, called the Sons of Liberty, had a meeting discussing on the execution of the protest. December 16th, the ship arrived. The group of men who were dressed as Indians demanded access to the ship. They used their tomahawks to open trunks containing the tea. They then threw the tea off board into the Boston Harbor, 342 trunks. The disguises aside from being symbolic also worked to hide the identity of the colonists so the governor could not apprehend any of the participants.

King George and the Parliament were enraged, this act of disobedience couldn't be accepted. They would then impose a set of rules called the intolerable acts.

American revolution video ( Animated ) enjoy !

FOUNDING FATHERS

JOHN ADAMS :

John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American politician and political philosopher and the second President of the United States (1797–1801), after being the first Vice President of the United States (1789–1797) for two terms. He was one of the most influential Founding Fathers of the United States.
Adams came to prominence in the early stages of the American Revolution. As a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, he played a leading role in persuading Congress to adopt the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776. As a representative of Congress in Europe, he was a major negotiator of the eventual peace treaty with Great Britain, and chiefly responsible for obtaining important loans from Amsterdam bankers.

Influence in Boston Massacre :

n 1770, a street confrontation resulted in British soldiers killing five civilians in what became known as the Boston Massacre. The soldiers involved, who were arrested on criminal charges, had trouble finding legal counsel. Finally, they asked Adams to defend them. Although he feared it would hurt his reputation, he agreed. Six of the soldiers were acquitted. Two who had fired directly into the crowd were charged with murder but were convicted only of manslaughter.
As for Adams's payment, Chinard alleges that one of the soldiers, Captain Thomas Preston, gave Adams a symbolic "single guinea" as a retaining fee, the only fee he received in the case. However, David McCullough states in his biography of Adams that he received nothing more than a retainer of eighteen guineas. Adams's own diary confirms that Preston paid an initial ten guineas and a subsequent payment of eight was "all the pecuniary Reward I ever had for fourteen or fifteen days labour, in the most exhausting and fatiguing Causes I ever tried.
Despite his previous misgivings, Adams was elected to the Massachusetts General Court (the colonial legislature) in June 1770, while still in preparation for the trial.

Boston Massacre

To supress the riot English send like 4000 troops to control the riots , a group of colonists threw snowballs to soldiers that where guarding a custom house , the soldiers responded badly by firing the crowd.

* people didnt like soldiers , they killed 5 colonists in total .
* This was called the Boston Massacre , dated March 15th 1772

By 1773 colonists had comitees of correspondance this created colonial unity , the parliament backed down and took the troops back to England .

Within all British soldiers were tiral defended by John Adams a colonist in which helped so that the charges were removed , at the end only 2 soldiers had to respond to consequences , in which they had to whore a band on their thumb showing that they had comiteed murder .

The Protests

In response to the many taxes, colonists reacted with protest. These protests took many forms, intelectual protests, economic boycotts and violent intimidation. While intellectual and important figures in the colonie's politics protested through intelectual protests like articles in newspapers, commoners opted for economical boycotts refusing to buy anything with tax on it.
A radical named Patrick Henry wanted to write a document called the Virginia Resolve which carriead a number of radical ideas. The Virginia House of Burgeses accepted all but two of these resolves.
Then, two sides in the colonies were started to be formed: The Patriots, against the stamp act, and The Loyalists, favoring the crown.
When violent intimidation arose, these surges were particularly violent in Boston were houses of important loyalists, like the governor's , were rallied and burned , the king started to send troops to stop crowds. 9 colonies sent delegates to the stamp act congress. Members of this congress treated matters such as boycotts and non-importation agreements both of wic threatened the congress. In the end the colonists managed to achieve the withrawal of all taxes with the price that now law gave parlament the right to tax colonists...

LIBERTY , REPUBLICANISIM AND RELIGION

John Lokes 's ideas on liberty was a great influence the political thinking behind the revolution; for example, his theory of the "social impact" implied that among humanity's natural rights was the right of the people to kick out political leader, should those leaders betray the historic The rights of English men. In terms of writing state and national constitutions, the Americans used Montesquieu's analysis of the "balanced" British Constitution.

A great idea on this revolution was the idea of republicanisim which was an idea dominant in the colonies by 1775 , Republicanisim was an inspirtation from the country party on England which English enphatised or said that corruption was a terrible reality that had to be afronted on England.

Americans feared the corruption was crossing the Atlantic; the commitment of most Americans to republican values and to their rights, energized the revolution, as Britain was increasingly seen as hopelessly corrupt and hostile to American interests.

An important fact to this revolution was also the Founding Fathers in which were strong influences to republicanisim ideas , this Founding Fathers were Samuel Adams , Patrick Henry , George Washington , Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin John Adams,Thomas Jefferson James Madison and Alexander Hamilton .

Women also formed an important paper in the Revolution because they were instructed to theach there children about republican ideas.

It was also believed that the religion of Puritanisim had an influence on the new ideas of republicanisim .

The Start of a Revolution

The revolution began in 1763 when the French threat to the colonies had already ended. The Indian-French war had costed a lot of money to Britain and the colonists were not paying a single coin in taxes for their protection. Since the crown was left in debt Britain was in need to apply a number of taxes to the colonists in order for them to pay for their own protection. New taxes such as the Sugar Act and the Quartering Act were already irritating the colonists it was however the Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the colonists, the one that would make protest to explode. Not only were the colonists enraged by the incredibly high taxes but more of the fact that they had to pay taxes without having the right for representation in the parliament or the right to vote. This was puzzling for the parliament for every single english men and countrymen had to pay taxes but only one fourth could actually vote.

French-Indian War (for the rock fans)

Introduction to the American Revolution

Greetings dear readers , we thank you for visiting our page , we will talk to you about a very quite interesting topic in which is about the American Revolution .

First we will start by introducing you with a little introduction to the main history of the American Revolution .

The American Revolution was an upheal that happened on the half of the 18th Century in which thirteen colonies of North America joined together to break free from the British rule and comandment combining to form the United States of America , we recomend you as a reader to hold yourself tight and get ready to make your imagination fly away with this interesting story of Freedom and Courage join us and read more...