The+Revolution



Read an actual account of a girl from Pennsylvania captured by an Indian tribe: [|Captured in Pennsylvania]

See the "Walking Purchase" map below:

Go to this link on the fur trade of the 18th century [|Fur trade & trade silver] Benjamin Franklin's famous cartoon: What does it say about the colonies?

Two maps about the French and Indian War:



The Revolutionary War Time line. Click on this link to see how everything fits!!!!! [|Revolutionary War Timeline]

First hand accounts of the Revolution: [|Eyewitnesses to history]

[|American Revolution Center]

How did the colonists use the picture below to their advantage?

Both the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress

Lexington and Concord Map

Click below to read excerpts from //Common Sense// "the most important tract of the Revolution" Printed anonomously in January, 1776.

[|Animated history- Battle of Bunker and Breed's Hill] After going through the battle above, please answer these questions: 1.What do the British fear? 2. What does it mean when it says the Patriots intended to "draw out the British from Boston and bloody them"? 3. What did both Patriot officers Putnam and Prescott have in common? 4. What did the Patriots do on the top of the hills? 5. What happened at 3:30 pm (15:30 military time)? 6. How many assaults did it take for the British to be victorious? 7. Why did the Patriots ultimately lose? 8. Analyze the statement that could have been said by the British...... "We can't afford too many victories like this!"

General Washington- Click below to learn more!

Thomas Jefferson, click below to learn more!

Click on the Declaration of Independence below to read some amazing stories about it!

Smoothbore musket "Brown Bess" Click on the link below to get a "taste" of colonial life on the Colonial Williamsburg website: [|Life in the colonies]

Making "cents" of money in the colonies: [|Money in the colonies]

Click on the pig below to learn a little about food during the Revolution:

Read more about [|rations during the Revolution] Click on the link [|110 good manners] to learn more about what was considered "good behavior" in the 18th Century!

Music during the Revolution

[|Washington's Crossing of the Delaware]

[|Animated History- The Philadelphia Campaign]

The picture below is a sketch of a naval "cheval de frise" like the one found in the Delaware river recently! What is the purpose of these?

Follow this [|link] to get overviews on many battles of the Revolution.


 * //Some maps showing the important campaigns of the American Revolution://**

Click to read about some local history here

Learn more about General Washington's Army at Valley Forge by clicking below:



"Molly Pitcher" and the Battle of Monmouth, NJ (June 28th, 1778)

Click here to read some info on the famous [|Marquis de Lafayette] Click below to learn more about the Revolution down in the Southern colonies: (Make sure to turn down the sound as it can be annoying)



Yorktown: British General Cornwallis and his troops built defensive positions in August 1781. French and American forces blocked Cornwallis on land while the French Navy defeated the British in the Chesapeake Bay trapping the British. On Oct. 19th 1781 "The was turned upside down for the British" who surrendered. Officially this was not the end of the war but made the British Government question whether it was worth fighting anymore.

Treaty of Paris notes