Chapter 5 Question 3

3. The colonies became unified after the Frist Continental Congress. For the first instead of depending on the parliament to change the form of the government the colonists created their own central government. At the Frist Continental Congress all the colonies sent delegates where all of them made decisions together on how to attack Britian. The Congress created an Association in every community to enforce the trade sanction against Britain. Each colony was doing the same thing to attack the British taxation laws. It was not like before 1763 where each colony had it own way. Like Boston and Newyork with boycotts while other colonies created petitions. During the Second Continental Congress, the delegates came together to discuss about their army and choice commanders. The congress made these decisions as a group. No one person made the decisions. They chose the Commanding General and George Washington and his job was to change the undisiplined army into a continental army. The congress created an Olive Branch Petition to end the war and come to a comprime but King Geroge III did not even considered it. Even though the colonist were making decisions as a united Country not all colonies wanted full independence. Mid-Atlantic colonies were still resistance to full independence. During this was when Thomas Paine's Common Sense was released. This pamphelt brought all the colonies to one decision which was that indepences was the only answer.