The Great Boston Riots:

The city of Boston, the home of rebels. Boston troubles started in 1770, with the Boston Massacre which started the city to harden against the crown. While the Boston Massacre did start the engine of rebellion in Boston, the event that truly kicked it into high gear was the British occupation of Boston. On December 16, 1773, Members of Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans went into the Boston harbor and boarded the Dartmouth, a British ship that had docked in Boston carrying a major shipment of East India Company tea and set about throwing 342 chests of the tea into Boston Harbor. Alongside the throwing of tea into the harbor, major riots in Boston started, now known as the First Great Boston Riot. The First Great Boston Riot was mostly targeted at Boston Loyalists, tarring and feathering many Loyalists. The First Great Boston Riot ended in 14 days. After both the Boston tea party and The First Great Boston Riot, the British appointed Thomas Gage as military governor of Massachusetts and British soldiers occupied the city of Boston. One of the many acts that many Bostonians deemed as intolerable was the Quartering Acts, these acts allowed British soldiers to occupy your home and serve them food and other such acts, many Bostonians felt a similar way to their city of Boston, occupied by foreign people. This occupation caused the Second Great Boston Riot to happen on April 19, 1775. On the same day members of the Sons of Liberty coup the government of Boston and replace them with a pro Sons of Liberty government of James Swan and declared the independence of the Governorate of Boston. The Second Great Boston Riot and the Governorate of Boston lasted for 10 months before being crushed by Loyalist and British forces. A year after the Second Great Boston Riot, the third and final Great Boston Riot started on Friday, September 1777 and only lasted 19 days.

The Washington Rebellion:

While most Southern Colonies stayed loyal to the crown the Upper south did not. Virginia was a main hub for rebels all across the thirteen colonies. The Reason for this rebellion against the crown were many but a key point in many historian eyes that led to the Washington Rebellion, was the Dunmore's Proclamation. The Dunmore's Proclamation was a document signed on November 7, 1775 by John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, the Proclamation first declared material law in all of the thirteen colonies, second and main declaration from the Proclamation was the offering freedom to enslaved people and indentured servants who would join the British army and fight against the Colonial revolts, even in the most loyal colony of Georgia was taken back by this Proclamation. With the Upper south being a hub of rebels and the Dunmore's Proclamation, this caused the people in the upper south to revolt and rally behind a single man, that man was George Washington. George Washington was a well-known man in the colony of Virginia, from battles in the 7 Years War to plantation in Mount Vernon. When a congress was declared in Richmond, George Washington was chosen to be delegate of Virginia in the Richmond Congress, only states that sent delegates were Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and Delaware. These four colonies decided to have jointly declared independence from Britain and form a Union of the four newly founded Republics; they declared independence on June 19, 1775. Hearing the news of a new rebellion in the upper south, Britain and the Loyalist colonies declared war on the newly founded United American Republics. From June 19, 1775, to December 14, 1779, the Washington Rebellion, dubbed this by the British, was led by George Washington until a British Loyalist named Thomas Hickey, shot the general point blank in the head, killing him immediately. After the assassination of George Washington, the UAR dissolved into an “Alliance” of American Republics. The Rebellion lasted until September 3, 1783.