Thomas Jefferson

3rd President of the United States

Perhaps the greatest gift given to a Nation are the principles proclaimed by their  Founding Fathers .  Our Nation stands alone among nations because of the efforts of our Founding Fathers to embrace freedom, justice and liberty.  We must pay homage to the PRINCIPAL AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. We remind those who are not steeped in history to become familiar with Thomas Jefferson. For he alone is the principal author of the Declaration that gave birth to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Jefferson was for States Rights and limited government.

What precipitated the Declaration of Independence were four acts which lit the fire of Revolution.

The Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts sparked outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution.

Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773; the British government hoped these punitive measures would, by making an example of Massachusetts, reverse the trend of colonial resistance to parliamentary authority that had begun with the 1765 Stamp Act.

Many colonists viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of their rights, and in 1774 they organized the First Continental Congress to coordinate a protest. As tensions escalated, the American Revolutionary War broke out the following year, eventually leading to the creation of an independent United States of America.

The Declaration of Independence justified the independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances against  King George III, and by asserting certain natural rights, including a RIGHT OF REVOLUTION.

The start of the Revolutionary War began in Lexington Massachusetts when the British troops tried to sieze munitions stored by the Colonists. The British troops were fired upon by Minutemen who took positions along the road in Concord.  This is where it all began, in the Great State of Massachusetts. In July 1775 General George Washington took charge of the troops in Boston.