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| Wife of the second President of the United States, she is an example of one kind of life lived by women in colonial, Revolutionary and early post-Revolutionary America. She is known for the stance she took for women's rights in letters to her husband. |
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| The second president of the United States, he was born in Massachusetts and was educated at Harvard. He was a representative to the First and Second Continental Congresses. He led the debate which ratified the Declaration of Independence. His support of the Alien and Sedition Acts angered many citizens. |
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| An African American Patriot. Like, Paul Revere, he warned citizens of an imminent British invasion. He fought heroically at Saratoga. |
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| He was opposed to British taxation in the colonies and believed that the colonial government was capable of self-rule without intrusion by the British monarchy. He played a role in many of the events which contributed to the Revolution including organized opposition to the Stamp Act, protests waged by the Sons of Liberty, and the Boston Massacre. |
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| She became a Patriot writer and first woman historian of the American Revolution. She wrote plays, poems and lots of other writings that supported independence. She used her writing to display her ideas. Her ideas and writings convinced many people in Massachusetts to become Patriots. |
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| A slave and spy who collected intelligence from the British Camp for Lafayette while feeding the British false information. His information helped pin down Cornwallis at Yorktown. |
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| He became a well-known printer in Philadelphia and an active leader in the city. He published Poor Richard's Almanack between 1732 and 1758 and his Autobiography in 1818. He was a member of the committee which wrote the Declaration of Independence but spent most of the period of the American Revolution in France. |
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| The Spanish governor of Louisiana who aided the Americans by driving the British out of Florida. He also smuggling much needed guns and supplies to the Americans throughout the war. |
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| He is remembered as the first American to die in the colonists' fight for freedom from Britain. He was part of an angry mob that surrounded eight British soldiers on 5 March 1770 outside the Boston customs house. The soldiers fired on the crowd and he was killed, along with four others. The shootings were quickly dubbed the "Boston Massacre" |
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| The British Monarch during the Revolutionary War. He told Parliament that the New England Colonies were "in a state of rebellion" and that "blows must decide" who would control America. |
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| He was a Polish-born Jewish immigrant to America who played an important role in financing the Revolution. When the war began, he was operating as a financial broker in New York City. He seems to have been drawn early to the Patriot side and was arrested by the British as a spy in 1776. |
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| He entered the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1765, and quickly influenced the colonial resistance to British taxation without representation. He was a member of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774. In March 1775, in an impassioned speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses, he stated: "...but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" |
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| This man was selected to compose the Declaration for two reasons. He was an excellent writer and he was from Virginia. Virginia had the largest population and members knew that no independence could succeed without their support. |
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| He was a French aristocrat who played a leading role in two revolutions in France and in the American Revolution. |
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| He contributed to the spirit of revolution in America and France through his influential writings. In January 1776 he wrote Common Sense, a pamphlet which attacked the monarchical system, supported independence, and outlined a new form of government. |
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| He is considered the founder of the U.S. Navy. He was daring and volatile, and led raids on British vessels during the American Revolution. In 1779 he commanded the Bonhomme Richard and engaged the British vessel the Serapis in battle. When the Serapis captain asked him if he was prepared to surrender, He replied, "I have not yet begun to fight." |
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The French and Indian War |
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| The French fought the British in North America over competing claims of ownership over land in the Ohio River Valley. |
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| Lowered the tax on foreign-made molasses in attempts to discourage smuggling. |
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| Required colonists to provide food and living quarters for British troops who remained in the colonies after the French and Indian War |
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| Was an internal tax on paper products purchased in the colonies. The tax could be seen on newspapers, wills, legal documents, playing cards and licenses. |
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| Radical group that harassed customs workers, stamp agents, and sometimes royal governors. Sometimes tarring and feathering tax collectors. |
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| Chancellor of the Exchequer, Charles Townshend imposed indirect British taxes on glass, lead, paint, and paper and tea. 4,000 British troops were sent to Boston to enforce the Acts in 1768. |
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| British soldiers guarding the Customs House in Boston fired on a crowd of Bostonians killing 5. The mob threw ice balls, clubs, oyster shells, and rocks at the soldiers when they then fired on the crowd. The soldiers were tried for murder and were defended by John Adams. 5 were acquitted and 2 were found guilty of manslaughter. |
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| On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. |
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Coercive Acts or "Intolerable Acts" |
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| Response to the Boston Tea Party, King George shut down the Port of Boston, reduced the power of the Massachussetts legislature, applied Quartering Act to all the colonies and ordered Royal officials to be in England |
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| It was the turning point of the war because it showed the French that the Americans could fight the British. France officially supports America after this battle. |
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| Place where Washington's Army spent the winter of 1777-1778, 1/4th of troops died here from disease and harsh winter conditions. |
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| General Washington's men and the French Army and Navy worked together to trap British General Cornwallis and defeat him. The British surrendered and negotiated for peace. |
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In 1783, The British sign a peace treaty ending the Revolutionary War and the 13 Colonies become independent.
America gains independence, the Great Lakes, and territory all the way from the Atlantic ocean to the Mississippi river. Spain gets back Florida. |
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Battles of Lexington and Concord |
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| The first battles of the Revolutionary War. They were called the "shots heard round the world." The Revolution would affect the whole world. |
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Declaration of Independence |
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| The document declaring that America is now independent from British rule. The core idea of the Declaration is based on the philosophy of John Locke. |
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