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-  Some people moved to the colonies because, they were angry the King in England wasn't listening to their concerns
-  Paul Revere was important in the American Revolution because he warned people that the British were coming
- Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin worked on creating an independent government
-  The American spies, during the war, went behind British lines, risking their lives, to find out their plans
- Colonial men that were ages 16-60 had to serve in their colony's fighting force
- The militiamen or colony fighting force had to defend the colony's border
- The Continental soldiers were lacking food, shelter, weapons and clothing but especially they were lacking men, few men wanted to join the Continental Army
-  During the American Revolution battles took place throughout the colonies
- In colonial times men were head of their household and women just cooked, cleaned and cared for the children, but when men went to fight in battles or war the women were head of the household
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- colonists sent little girls to england to get information and the british just thought they were dumb little girls
-  when spies were caught they were usually sent to life in prison or death sentence.
- benedict arnold was a spy for the colonists but when in london he changed to be a british spy.

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In 1763 the British won the French and Indian War, but it had been costly.  Needing to gain back their wealth, England taxed the colonists.  People had the right to disagree with the taxes with a representative in Parliament, but the colonies were not allowed a place in it.  The colonies were also only allowed to trade and import goods from Great Britan.
The Sugar Act of 1764: This taxed sugar, wine, coffee, and some assortments of cloth.
The Stamp Act of 1765: This caused many to be angered by British Parliament and the King.  It taxed all imported paper goods.  It was repealed in 1766.
The Townshend Act: it taxed glass, paper, paint, and tea.

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- colonists wanted to name george the king of america and he said "their are to many kings in this world."
- when george was 11 his father died and he had to help his mother with the farm
-george found his dads surveying tools and he used all the time.
- since he  loved to survey, when he was 16 he got a surveying job
- in 1753 when george was 21 he joined the virginia army he rode the ohio valley to warn the french to get of english land
-in 1754 the french and indian war begin he fought on the side of england
-george was known as a good and brave leader for the 13 colonies
- in the  british and american 13 colonies war he served as a continental army leader.
-george became very ill and dead at 67 years old

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-Ben Franklin had many opinions and talents such as freeing the americans from the british and he was a scientist, a inventor and a author
-using the lightning rod Ben made something to store and take the energy called the a leyden jar
- ben was one of seventeen teen children he was the fifteenth in his family/ 3rd oldest
-ben was born on sunday and was left handed and those were signs of him being the devils child and when his dad caught him using his left hand he would be punished
-when ben was 11 he signed a contract saying he would work at his oldest brother james's printer shop  for nine years (until he was 21)

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Wahington Guy crosses deleware and lies about stuff

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Wahington Guy crosses deleware and lies about stuff

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Most of americas army was not well trained and were new to fighting, while the british red coats were well trained and had a lot of experience fighting
- the american soldiers fought in the battle of trenton on christmas day in 1776
- george washington was a liar! george promised let his soldiers go after a year but he didnt! even if they're feet were bleeding in the snow! （｀ー´）

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- It happened on the night of December 16, 1773
-They dumped thousands of pounds of tea into the ocean
-To protest the taxes on tea
- The colonist would not let them tax them for tea
-The British would not leave until the colonist payed there taxes

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- Lydia was a famous spy which was a big part of the revolutionary war.
- Spies gave information through buttons and other things.

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- spies were young kids so people didn't think they were a spy
- spies had another copy of information so if one got caught they can send another spy to deliver  the  iformation
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When the British came to America, the Americans felt that they were treated unfairly and they wanted a stronger government. They felt like this because the taxes were becoming out of hand and they didn't like it anymore. They wanted it to stop so they tried to persuade people to vote the current Government out or let them know that they were unhappy, but that wasn't gonna work. James Madison helped with that. He also helped with getting other people on track, such as the farmers. A lot of farmers couldn't pay off their farms so they protested and James Madison helped represent people like those farmers. He was a speaker and wanted to resolve problems.

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- New York was the only colony that didn't like the declaration of independence at july 4 in 1776

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- large groups of colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians so others would not find out what they were doing.
- They dumped hundreds of crates full of tea into the ocean and it killed many fish.
- This was an act of protest against the policies of the British Parliament and king George the third who owned all of the English colonies in North America.
-Parliament had levied a tax on all Tea Shipped from England.

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- One thing that lead to the Massacre was Ten days before the massacre a large crowd crowded around the house of one of the informers for the British troops. He fired into the crowd and killed an 11 year old boy. Many people attended this boys funeral.
- Two Days before the Massacre Some Bostonians beat up British Soldiers.

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-The Boston tea party today would cost over 1 million dollars.
-The Boston tea party hurt animals from the tea bags being dumped into the ocean.
-The reason why they did this is because of the taxes and they felt like they were being treated unfairly.

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British soldiers often known as redcoats would fire at unarmed citizens for making them mad sometimes or they would beat you up or worse. On March 5 1770, a group of boys throw snow balls at a British soldier. Then a squad of 8 soldiers confronts the crowd and opens fire killing five children. That is a example of what has happened during the american revolution.

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-In the boston tea party colonists disguised as Mohawk indians dumped bags of tea into the ocean.
-The boston tea party killed lots of sea animals.
-a company called The British East India company sold all the tea that was being taxed.
- British wants it to have control of all tea sold in America.
-Tea agents could control trade a
trade and ruin American businesses
-The british tea party is important because americans were fighting for freedom .
- americans didn't want to be taxed for almost everything so they decided to fight for freedom

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On the secret mission, people were having a tough time and for a little while, people lost hope. Then, they found good reasons to keep going. The mission was meant so that the enemy couldn't find them.

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On June 10, 1768, a British crew took over john Hancock ship, a merchant known for smuggling molasses and tea into town.  A large fight broke out between colonists and solders. One official ended up bloody.
The violence done by Boston lead to King George III sending troops to camp in the center of town.
The Boston Massacre: British Private Hugh White was in an argument with Edward Garrick, and the colonists threw ice and snow at the British guard.  More guards came to the scene and shot and killed 5, while 6 others were wounded.
The Boston Tea Party: By 1770 all oof the Townshend acts had been abolished except one, the one on tea. To protest

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They hid there weapons in very secretive places. Sometimes they would hide them underground or in the woods. They would make the weapons in blacksmith shops and selling them. They would hide the guns so the British wouldn't find them and burn there guns and ammunition .

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- He represented Virginia in the Continental Congress
- He was the 3rd president
- 2 of his 6 children lived until adulthood
- Thomas Jefferson organized the Louisiana Purchase
- Thomas Jefferson and John Adams argued over who should write the Declaration of Independence
- He wrote the Declaration of Independence
- When his wife died, he promised to never remarry
- He was a self taught architect who designed his house, the Virginia statehouse, and the University of Virginia
- He was the Secretary of State for 4 years

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- lots of people dressed up as mohawks and snuck on the british ships and poured the boxes of tea in the sea which killed a lot of fish
- The dumping of the tea costed almost a million dollars, ( in todays money) thats a lot of money!

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They didn't want to keep paying taxes because of the tea, so they threw boxes of tea into the Boston Harbor.
They also were disguised as Mohawk Native Americans so they wouldn't be caught and go to jail.

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George Washington prepared his men to go on a secret mission and cross the Delaware river when they were losing the war against the British for independence. British soldiers wore red uniforms, because of this, they were called "redcoats".

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- Ethan Allen injured a British commander and collected their ammunition
- Crispus Attucks was a slave who cornered British soldiers and told people to shoot at them
- Lydia Darragh was a spy who overheard the British planning an attack so the next day she made sure that their plan failed
- Nathan Hale saw the British camp and took notes on the layout of it
- Molly Pitcher was a nurse to the Continental army and she kept many fighters alive
- Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
- Thomas Paine wrote a book that was read aloud to the American Patriots. It fired up their spirits
- Paul Revere learned that the British were going to attack Patriots at Massachusetts so he warned people

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- The spies had many top secret adventures
- When the spies were caught they were held captive or killed
-They would use kids because the kids seem innocent to the british
- Parent would put there kids in danger to get a note  to someone
- They had to avoid all the British soldiers so they wouldn't get stopped
- They wrote all there letters in code -The spies had to always be on the look out for British soldiers.
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because colonists didn't want to pay for the tea tax, they bought tea from dutch merchants which transported tea illegally. soon the british found out because they were losing customers. the british were very angry because they wrent supposed to have tea without paying the tea tax.

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-The colonist showed their anger by throwing barrels into the Boston harbor.
- After the war people had unforgettable stories to tell.
-One of the soldiers was a doctor and he had been captured to the British side. One of the soldiers on the american was sick and he help him recover.
- So that doctor/soldier was forced to be a doctor for Britain.
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-  He was an apprentice for his brother
-  He was a founding father of the United states of America
- He  proved that lightning was electricity
-  He ran away to Philedaphia because he hated  his job as a apprentice

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-Ethan Allen: He was a man who helped lead people in the Revolutionary War and captured people who were trespassing.
-Crispus Attucks: He was a slave. He escaped from slavery.

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-Slaves could not be educated because it was a law
-Half a million in the american colonies were black and there were only a few slaves freed
- By the end of the war 60,000 slaves have been set free.

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-The settlers who lived in the 13 colonels did not have many weapons but they had many reasons to fight against the British.
- When the colonist won the revolutionary war their lives were changed forever and the country was formed with a new type of government.
-Before the american revolutionary war the colonist helped Britain fight in the French and Indian war. When they did that they hoped that the king would give them more land in america.

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Lord Talbot, King George's head chief wasn't very good at getting things right.
At King George's coronation banquet Lord Talbot thought that it would be cool to make 2000 candles light all at once by making a line of wax to connect to every candle, it woudnt work as the wax had to let the fire travel for some time, and even set fire to some of the people at the banquet, which it did.
Then Lord Talbot forget to provide all the guests with chairs, and when he did find enough chairs for the guest there wasn't enough tables. And finally, because he thought it would save money, he didn't buy enough money to serve all the guests at the banquet. when the guest complained he asked the guests if they wanted to fight. sounds a little like 2018 to me! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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-Kids were sent as spies and would carry secret codes for people to read.
- Kids were sent because they wouldn't suspect little children to be spies.
-If a Spy was caught they would be lucky to go to jail because most of them would be killed
-Some codes would be hidden in buttons or small objects soldiers wouldn't expect.

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- Ben Franklin was born on January 17 1706.
- Ben Franklin was one of seventeen children.
- He went to school for 2 years and also loved to read and write.
- He was taken out of school at age 10 to work in the family's shop.
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- people used kids as spies so they could not assume that they would not assume that they were spying on the British
- People used secret codes so only some people  could read it so the British would not be able to read the codes.
- People sent kids out with permission to go to their relatives house because the British would not let them out because they would assume they were spies ( they were not really going to a family members house)
- Spies that were caught by the British were either hung or tortured badly.

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- people were kept as prisoners on ships to help with the cannons and helping around the ship with daily things ( Mopping, Sweeping and washing.)
- Some prisoners made friends with the captain's son while on board.
- Many sick people were kept under the ship in a small room. Many people in this room were sick.
-Some Captain's allowed slaves to leave in boxes or crates onto supply ships that sailed back to their homes.

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- Benedict Arnold gave the British important information for capturing west point. He committed treason
-Benedict Arnold started smuggling goods to avoid taxes. someone threatened to expose Arnold smuggling, so Arnold rounded up a group and beat him up    later he got arrested
- Arnold gathered a militia group and started to march to the middle of the war.
- Arnold heard about a different attack and so he left his troops and wanted join Ethan Allen because they both wanted to raid Ticonderoga Arnold asked Allen and he refused to attack with Arnold
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every battle the patriots won encuraged them to fight more because the british were trained solgers and they were farmers and fishers

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Any spy caught would be hanged, shot or tortured. Spies were kids so it wasn't obvious that they were a spy.

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he joined the army because his brother died in the army so he joined for honor

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- Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
-  Only Two of Thomas's children of six lived to adulthood
- Thomas Jefferson and very few other were angry that the taxes had made all of the Bostonian's upset.
- Thomas's wife Martha died at the age of 23.
- Jefferson became a member of Virginia's new state legislature.

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They would make their guns in the blacksmith shop and sell them so when the British would come, they would be prepared. They would also hide their guns and ammo so the British didn't burn it or use it against them.

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-black smiths forged muskets and hid them in a storage room to help the amy defeat the british
- some kids instead of being a spy they put them in charge of hiding the weapons or guarding them
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in the revalushanry war all the men that were fighters would of starve or die another way

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- the british had a prison as an old boat that was floating in the sea so if the british captured someone in the sea that was from america they would put them in that boat until they were released and aloud to leave or go wearever they want

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- There are muskets and bayonet
- Many people keep secrets
- Some people forge weapons and bullets
- People need to hide bullets and weapons in places where the British can't find them

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- Some people think that spies would only be adults, but some kids can also be spies and people won't think that kids are spies
- If spies were caught, they would be tortured or killed
- Some people used secret codes to communicate with others and the British will not understand them

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- When George was 12 years old his father died Then, ten years later his grandfather died.
-  George refused to become King until he had a Queen

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I read two books and in one of the books it was about a spy and his name was john and john knew this kid named Samuel who wanted the British to win the war. In the book i'm reading right now its about Samuel's perspective and how he had to make a choice to stay with the British and be safe or risk everything to help George Washington.

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-Was one of 13,000 people to live in Boston in 1735
-His father died when he was 15 years he took over his silversmith business
-In 1756 when he was 21 years old a war broke out near his town
-He defended the colonies in the French and Indian war
-After the war he went back to his silversmith shop
-1765 the Britain started taxing colonies
-He was a leader of the Sons of Liberty  which was a secret club
-On December 16, 1773 he and the Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians
- They boarded the British  ships and dumped tea into the ocean so they would have no more tea tax
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-spies were extremely lucky to go to jail  because most of the time they were tortured or hanged if caught
-most spies were kids because the other side woudnt expect the spies to be kids because they thought that kids were not fit for the job.

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-henry brought cannons from fort to the town that he lived in to help push the british out of that town
- henry didn't want to leave a cannon behind so when a connon fell through ice he and his men that he brought with him to help fished them out of the water
- it toke henry and his men fifty days to get to the fort and bring the cannons back to the town
- henry and his men and other people helped put the cannons in a line and they finished at dawn and when the british saw all the cannons they fled and left 250 of their cannons behind

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- in 1758 George Wahington made decisions about the colonies, George Wahington joined and then lead  the continental army.
-in 1780 General Nathanael Greene was in charge of the southern colonies.
- Nancy Morgan Hart was one of the first spy ever, she gathered information on the British army.
- Nathan Hale was an american spy with no spy traing and no tools to help him. he got got from the britian because his accent and posture gave him away, also the btritan found hiden documents that proved Nathan Hale was a spy.

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- George Washington looked for recruits to fight the British.
-General Howe scatted his men around the colony's to fight back.
-Washington planed an attack on Christmas night he thought the Hessian's would not expect a holiday attack.

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George Washington was first a general in the revolutionary war. He and his team (group) went on a secret mission across the Delaware river to escape from their enemies.