Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston January 17, 1706 to Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger. Benjamin was the 10th of the seventeenth chilchren from Josiah Franklin. Benjamin's parents couldnt afford to send him to school so he only went one year. His father knew that Benjamin liked to read so he send him at the age of 12 to his older brother, James, who was a printer in there Benjamin composed pamphlets between other things. When he was 15, James started a newspaper but James didnt let Benjamin express in the Newspaper his point of view so Benjamin wrote to him by the name of a widow "Silence Dogood". This articles ecame very famous, after time Benjamin told his brother that didnt took it well. Later James wassent to jail because of his views, so Benjamin took care of the newspaper but his brother instead of thanking him he beat him up and this caused Benjamin to run away when he was 17.

After escaping he tried to find a job on a printer, but instead he got on a boat to Philadelphia and in there he got a job as an apprentice printer and met his fututer wife Deborah Read. Benjamin started his own printer business with borrowed money and he got very good contracts and did jobs for the government. On 1728 Benjamin adopted a child called William and started a newspaper called "Pensylvania Gazette". Benjamin married Deborah on 1730. he helped building the Pensylvania Hospital.

Benjamin Franlin had a deep interest in science. So in 1750 he started experimenting and creating things. He invented the Franklin Stole, the harmonica, the spectacles, oval shaped swimming fins, ad dicovered electricity. He was intersted too on politics and served as a representative of Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. He was selected on the second continental congress and was also selected on the commitee that was drafting the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin was sent to France as an embassador and played a great role on the Treaty of Paris. Before his death he wrote an Anti-Slavery Tratise. He died  April 17,1790 and he was 84.

Women and Slaves in the American Revolution

 





Through history women and slaves have somthing in similar,both had no rights,but this had an end,for  women it all started this way Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams,she was in the right of saying that all women in the country needed rights.Womens roles became more valued for their aid in the revolution war and they got this name called "Republican Motherhood"or mothers for the new nation.They began with this ideas of the Revolution stimutlated hopes and expectations for equality and freedom.In some cases they gained the right of voting,however the voting  was limited gain of status.The right of suffrage was achieve gradually,during the nineteeth century and early tweenth century,this was culminate in 1920.Lots of years passed but they got what they wanted those rights that all human being has.

In the other hand slaves,although the slave trade itself was banned and in the northern states slavery was abolished ,this doesnt completely remove slavery and make them consider a "real person".Slavery was difficult to get removed,actually this disagreement brought United States go under a bloody Civil War.The South wanted slavery,the North disagree with that,so they both separated,was a bloody and horrible Civil War South vs North,Brothers and Sisters against themselves.When the South won United States unify again,and slavery was abolish,but this didnt mean that rascism was going to flourish.

Abigail Adams

Abigail was born a November 11 of 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Her parents were William Smith and Elizabeth Quincy. Abigail had 1 brother and 3 sisters. She didnt recieved a formal education but she studied the Bible, history, philosophy, essays, and poetry. Her mother and grandmother taught her social grace, homeworking, and handwork skills.Abigail got married at the age of 19 on October 25, 1764 to John Adams. They had 3 children, two girls and one boy. The Adam's fist lived on a farm in Braintree and later on they moved to Boston. 


During war time Abigail had to fend for her own with her husband as a delaget of the continental army. She had to runa farm on her own, raise her children, and had to ran her household. Later on as she became the wife of the vice president and then the first lady she became the confident and political advisor of John Adams. Abigail expressed her ideas to her husband and always supported him. She fended for the women rights by telling her husband to 'dont forget the ladys' when writting the constitution but this wasnt approved. Abigail died on October 28, 1818, and is buried in the United First Parish Church of Quincy beside John Adams. She was not only the first lady but the mother of one president too (John Quincy Adams, 6^th President). Abigail opposed to slavery, and thought education should be equal for boys and girls.

The Treaty Of Paris

The Revolutionary War ended when General Cornwallis surrender....although small battles still happening between the Americans and the British,for two more years.In February of 1863 King George III issued this Proclamation of Cessasion of Hostilities,this was lead to the Treaty of Paris of 1863.This Treaty was signed in Paris on September 3 1783,well this Treaty was the one that formally ended the war,and make offcially the Americans Independent.Was those this means,the revlutionary war finally ended after 8 years of war,guns,killings etc.


Who were the Representants of United States?
The representants were John Adams,Benjamin Franklind and John Jay,all whom signed the Treaty that help this war end,and making them independent. In addition,giving formal recognition to the United States of America.
The nine articles in the Treaty stated:
Established U.S. boundaries
Specified certain fishing rights
Restored the rights and property of Loyalists
Allowed creditors of each country to be paid by citizens of the other
Opened up the Mississippi River to citizens of both nations
Provide for evacuation of all British forces,make the soldiers of Britain leave the United States and go back home.

U.S Flag History

 Betsy Ross used to tell her family that one day George Washington, Robert Morris, and, George Ross asked her to sew the first flag this occurred at her house on the late May of 1776. At that moment Washington was the head of the Continental Army. In June of 1776 George Washington showed her a rough design of the flag at the time Betsy was a widow and had to stand for herself in her business (she made flags). Before all these happened the Colonies and the Militia had many flags. One was the "Rattlesnake Flag" it had a rattlesnake in the center and 13 stripes (white and red) and it said "Don’t treat on me" this flag was used by the continental army, another flag used b the Continental Army was a green tree and had a white background and it said "An appeal to heaven". Other flag was the one used by the Loyalists which had the 13 red and white stripes and had at the left upper side the British flag. 

They realized they needed an official flag this story tells that Betsy Ross the flag in late May or early June of 1776. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress, seeking to promote national pride and unity, adopted the national flag. "They said: that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."

                                  

Deborah Sampson

Deborah Samson Gannet,better known as Deborah Sampson,she was an American  women who impersonated a man in order to serve the Continental Army.During the Revolution she was the only woman to fight int  the revolutionary war.

She served 17 months in the army,with the name of Robert Shurttiff of Uxbridge,Massachusetts,was wounded on war and discharged honorably at West point.

When she turned 18 and was released indenture serfdom with the Thomas Family,she became a school teacher rejecting the suggestion of getting marry.Eventhough later on she did  get married.

Betsy Ross

Betsy Ross was born the fist of January in1752 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By the name of Elizabeth Grinscom. She was the great-granddaughter of a British carpenter called Andrew Grinscom. She attended a Quaker school and in there she learned needlework. She married John Ross, an Anglican, in 1773. Betsy Ross joined the "Free Quakers" or " Fighting Quakers" because the were not as pacifist as the typical Quaker steryotype. Later on John and Betsy Ross opened a business based on her skill on needlework. 

John her first husband was killed in January 1776 in a militia duty  on Philadelphia, Betsy continued the business by herself. She reamarried on 1777 with Joseph Ausburn who was a sailor, he died in prison after being in a ship that was captured by the British. Betsy got married once more this time with John Claypoole, who was in prison with Joseph, he died in 1817.She had 7 children. Betsy lived until 1836, dying on January 30. She is who supposedly was the first one who made the first U.S.A flag (the one with the 13 stars and 13 stripes) but there is some doubt about this fact. Anyways she is a great example of a strong woman, she went through man things such as widowhood, single motherhood and, managing a business by herself.