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The Continental Congress did take a number of steps to begin governing the colonies

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People of the colonies started devolving idea of independence from Great Britain and Thomas Paine was a part of insperation .

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Willam Howe a General of the british would withdraw and on March 17 George Washington would lead his troops to Boston and they would watch the british sail away .

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They began the idea of governing the colonies tarting with printing money , and an post Office with Franklin in charge .

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Benjamin Franklin had been the leader in the Pennsylvania legislature. He was a very respected man. In 1765 he represented the colonies in London and helped win repeal of the Stamp Act.

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In 1774 he Continental Congress agreed to meet again if the British did not address their complaints.

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The Decleration shows how government is and how it' supposed to protect rights . It also states about grivances or examples such as cutting off trade with ost of the world . Lastly it states to pledge our lives to each other .

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The Decleration was known as the universes principles and should be known as a set of rules to follow for most situations . This would be based off of rights of humans or English rights .

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John Adams would be lead to beileve that the approval of the Decleration would become a holiday ,but July fourth would be celebrated as the day Delegates adopted the Decleration known as Independence day .

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The Declertion has four section each explaining people rights and the begginging of new natoins and existences of new ones .

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The Decleration was copied and with Washington sending his troops on July 9 to New York to tell the colony that they had independence. Then in Massachetts the Decleration would be read to the public with chears for their freedom .

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The document was approved on July 4 1776 with John Hancock being the first and biggest signature on the Deceleration and with a after total of 56 delegate signatures .

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On July 2 1776 they voted on the ideas of Lee'sand would have the colonies voted on their independence only leaving New York that did not vote , but later annouced their support .

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Jefferson would write the decleration and take great inspartion from a well known writter John Locke agreeing with his ideals .

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A committee was formed to make the Declaration of Independence including John Adams ,Benjamin Franklin , Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman. This was later known as the Committee of five

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Willam Howe a General of the british would withdraw and on March 17 George Washington would lead his troops to Boston and they would watch the british sail away .

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The British had control of Boston with patriot militia around the city and Washington had deamed his Army ready for battle in March of 1776 they attacked at night.

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After the Battle of Bunker Hill George Washington would begin a system for disaplen and organziation making his army well suited for battle.

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The Americans would plan the first attack and had their patroits march and capture Montreal and another American attack on Quebec but fail .

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The delegates would need to dicuss the matters of War and were not in a postion to seperate from Britain they would take another year before Thomas Jefferson would write the Decleration of Independence .

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John Hancock as a wealthy merchant would support patriot groups and became the president of the Second Continental Congress .

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The great leaders included John Adams , Samuel Adams , Richard Henry Lee , Patrick Henry , and George Washington .

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The second Continental Congress met on May 10 1775 The delegates included some of the greatest leaders i the colonies.

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Benjamin Franklin had been the leader in the Pennsylvania legislature. He was a very respected man. In 1765 he represented the colonies in London and helped win repeal of the Stamp Act.

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During the battles of Lexington and concord the relations between the colonies and the British would start a disbute around 1775 decreaing their relationship

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George lll would hire around 30,000 German solider to defend his kingdom known as Heisanto fight along his British troops .

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Delegate offered to prevent war sending the Olive Branch petition to George lll as a sign of peace allowing the right for protecting , but instead they prepared for war ignoring the petition .

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Washington reached Boston in July 1775. He needed weapons, he had dozens of cannons hauled 300 miles.

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They would form Army being one of the most important parts due to the fact they would form strategies to fend of Britain .They had a difference between other defenders such as militia and were named the Continental Army .

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Committees were made to handle the relations with the Natives or foreign countries .

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They began the idea of governing the colonies tarting with printing money , and an post Office with Franklin in charge .

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The Congress found out the British troops in Canada were planning to invade New York.

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Thomas Paine supported that they needed to separate the colonies and as a writer he posted a pamphlet known as "Common Sense" . This gave reason to become independent.

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The Congress chose Gorge Washington to command this army. He was an experienced soldier and a Respected Southern planter. He left Philadelphia at once to take charge of the forces in Boston.

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People of the colonies started devolving idea of independence from Great Britain and Thomas Paine was a part of insperation .

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Many others would debate this topic and others also feared the power of Britain fearing they would easily crush the rebellion .

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Richard Lee Henry had his own answer to this debate of how the United colonies should be free.

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When the Second Continental Congress they had a debate of whether they should rule independently or keep the colonies under the rule of the Britsh.

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In 1774 he Continental Congress agreed to meet again if the British did not address their complaints.