Therefore, they decided to have a Second Continental Congress. Edward Rutledge was born in Charleston in 1749. He studied law in England. Despite his youth, he became famous for his ability to speak and debate. Even if he participated at the First Continental…
On the day of September 17, 1730, Baron von Steuben as born. Baron von Steuben, well known as the son of a military engineer.. He arrived at Fort Valley on February 23, 1778. Steuben met Washington at Fort Valley. Steuben and Washington then had a meeting with Frederick .…
The great compromise was a way to get small state to not go and uproar because they were getting tired of being ignored and being forgotten because they didn’t have a big population. The big states were wanted more representatives based on population and thought if you have more people then you would get a lot more control over what laws go and don’t go. The little states were getting mad because they didn’t have much power when it came to law making they just had to sit back and deal with it…
He was also sharing the role of treasurer of the Continental Congress with Michael Hillegas. He went with Matthew Sampson to visit the northern army. He resigned his role of Congress on 1780. He was elected a seat in the Philadelphia legislative and was sent to represent his state in the Constitutional Convention in 1782. James Wilson September 14, 1742 – August 21, 1798 Revolutionary Times - In 1774, Wilson wrote a paper saying the British Government had no say in the United States.…
John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767 in Braintree, Massachusetts to John and Abigail Adams. John Q Adams grew up in family of farmers but his family was also full of success. His great grandfather was a represented Braintree colonial for over forty year and a speaker of the house while his dad graduated from Harvard as a lawyer and soon after became president of the United States. As it started in 1763 Adams still had to deal with the rebellion with the American colonists against the British overseers. He used to always be amazed as he told his grandma that he liked the “pretty redcoats”.…
Along with being a Patriot for the American Revolution, John also was a merchant, smuggler, and statesman. Hancock mainly worked as a merchant before he went to college. He would never know that he would help start the American Revolution. Hancock then won two consecutive political positions and got into politics. John did this when colonists became more angry with the British taxes.…
In June of 1776 he was elected to attend the provincial conference to send delegates to the Continental Congress. He was appointed to represent Philadelphia that year and so signed the Declaration of Independence. In 1777 he was surgeon-general of the middle department of the Continental Army. This office led to some trouble for him; he was critical of the administration of the Army Medical service under Dr. William Shippen. He complained to Washington, who deferred to the Congress.…
Ulysses S. Grant played a major role in the northern states winning the Civil War. Grant was General of the Union Army during the Civil War, and he was a quite successful General. It was because of General Grant and his men that General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia finally surrendered at the Appomattox Court House. With the start of the Civil War in 1861 Ulysses S. Grant jumped at the opportunity to be a part of the Union Army. The first commanding post that he had was Colonel of the 21st Illinois Infantry.…
Francis Marion was born on February 26, 1732, he was one of six children. His mother and father were Gabriel and Charlotte Marion. He was born on his parents’ plantation and lived there for the first five years of his life in Berkley County, South Carolina. Then his family settled down on a plantation near Georgetown, South Carolina. Although he wasn’t very educated, he was one of the great partisan leaders of the American Revolutionary War, also known as the War for Independence.…
As we know Roger Sherman is already a very smart man and he is capable of many things. While at the Constitutional Convention he served as a Connecticut representative. He was one of the oldest person at the convention and was a very good speaker. While at the Constitutional Convention he was the one that came up with the Great Compromise. What that is is was an agreement that both large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States.…
John Adams The Second President Revolutionary War Biography 5th Grade Literacy Klarissa, May 2017 Who else was the 2nd president of the United States? No one besides John Adams.…
He was a really important part of the American revolution, without him we probably wouldn’t be free today. Francis Marion was born on his family's plantation in Berkeley County, South Carolina in 1732.During his life he was a very productive man, he was always…
General William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea really encompassed nearly the whole State of Georgia. Just as Jackson sought to wage war in an indirect fashion against the political will of the Union to maintain the war by near constant threats to the capitol and by typing up troops, Sherman sought to undermine the civilian population of the south in order to shirk Confederate forces in the Eastern Theater that confronted Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant in front of Richmond and Petersburg. The method by which he sought to shrink those forces was two-fold. First by threatening the women and children as well as livelihood of those on the home front, Confederate soldiers could be induced to desert the Confederate armies to get back home and…
Was the civil war a fight to save the union, or an effort to preserve the separation of people? Many opinions have been presented by historians as to why the civil war broke out. From the Northern perspective the South was just trying to protect its undiversified economy which relied heavily on slavery. Whereas, the South viewed the war as a result of conflicting interests between the federal government and states rights. In Charles Drew’s writings; Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War, he gives examples which support his claim that commissioners of the South anticipated succession through white supremacist ideologies.…
The Compromise of 1850 was a series of congressional statutes passed in September of 1850, in which the United States Congress sought out to settle conflicts between those who opposed slavery in the North and those in favor of slavery in the South. There is much speculation about what the United States would be like today without this Compromise. Which leads to the question, should the Compromise have ever been approved? Still, regardless if the Compromise was approved or not, the Civil War was an inevitable event in American history. The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt to solve tensions between the North and the South over the expansion of slavery, specifically into Texas, which was a territory obtained by the United States in the Mexican…