USA Meridian Hill Park in Columbia Heights Northwest Washington D.C, 6.8.2 Advance on Puebla Washington's army reduced to 5,400 troops retreated through New Jersey and Howe broke off pursuit delaying his advance on Philadelphia and set up winter quarters in New York. Washington crossed the Delaware River into Pennsylvania where Lee's replacement John Sullivan joined him with 2,000 more troops the future of the Continental Army was in doubt for lack of supplies a harsh winter expiring enlistments and desertions Washington was disappointed that many New Jersey residents were Loyalists or skeptical about the prospect of independence. Beginning during the revolution and in the first two decades of the postwar era every state in the North abolished slavery ending with New Jersey in 1804 although in some cases existing slaves were not liberated immediately These were the first abolitionist laws in the Atlantic World. ! 12 Notes 12 Further reading Naypyidaw Burma (2005-2006) 7.2 South Branch Potomac River Regarding the beginning of the war Ulysses S Grant who had opposed the war but served as an army lieutenant in Taylor's Army claims in his Personal Memoirs (1885) that the main goal of the U.S Army's advance from Nueces River to Rio Grande was to provoke the outbreak of war without attacking first to debilitate any political opposition to the war.
In 1772 it became known that the Crown intended to pay fixed salaries to the governors and judges in Massachusetts which had been paid by local authorities This would reduce the influence of colonial representatives over their government Samuel Adams in Boston set about creating new Committees of Correspondence which linked Patriots in all 13 colonies and eventually provided the framework for a rebel government Virginia the largest colony set up its Committee of Correspondence in early 1773 on which Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson served. Bills and resolutions George Washington presiding over the signing of the United States Constitution 4 Agitation against slavery. Vte When the Second Continental Congress convened on May 10 1775 it essentially reconstituted the First Congress Many of the same 56 delegates who attended the first meeting participated in the second. New arrivals included Benjamin Franklin and Robert Morris of Pennsylvania John Hancock of Massachusetts and John Witherspoon of New Jersey Hancock was elected Congress president two weeks into the session when Peyton Randolph was recalled to Virginia to preside over the House of Burgesses Thomas Jefferson replaced Randolph in the Virginia congressional delegation the second Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence Witherspoon was the only active clergyman to sign the Declaration He also signed the Articles of Confederation and attended the New Jersey (1787) convention that ratified the Federal Constitution.
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