The American Revolution

 

Continental Congress

Declaration of Independence, Emory Law School

  http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/independ/declar.html

1st Continental Congress

  http://courses.smsu.edu/ftm922f/Documents/1stcontcongress.htm

Intolerables Acts

  http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/conwell/revolution/congress.htm

2nd Continental Congress

  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/continental.cong.html

Declaration and Resolves of the 1st Continental Congress

  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/independence/decres.htm

General Gage

A brief biography

  http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0819987.html

Student biography

  http://darter.ocps.net/classroom/revolution/gage.htm

Yorktown

Yorktown is won

  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/episode5.html

Start of search page

  http://www.thinkquest.org/library/site_sum.html?tname=10966&url=10966/data/yorktn.shtml

Battle of Yorktown index page

  http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/AmericanRevolution/YorktownBattle.htm

Student paper on the Battle of Yorktown

  http://darter.ocps.net/classroom/revolution/ytown.htm

Pictures and a map to go with facts

  http://members.aol.com/spursfan50/davidallen/yorktown.htm

Saratoga

  http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/maps/saratogamap/

  Benedict Arnold

  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/ben.arnold.leg.html

  http://earlyamerica.com/review/fall97/arnold.html

Thomas Paine

  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/paine.html

  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/tpaine/paine.htm

Lexington & Concord

Short factual essay

  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/concord/concorxx.htm

A journey towards freedom

  http://library.thinkquest.org/10966/data/lexnton.shtml?tqskip1=1

WPI military science site

  http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/Lexcon/

General research pages

  http://www.earlyamerica.com/

A great site with lots of information

  http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/American_Revolution.html

  http://www.earlyamericanimages.com/main.html

  http://members.tripod.com/~DARTO/usmchistory.html

  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/war/causes.htm

  http://www.kurtteej.com/history/political.asp

  http://www.ushistory.org/

University of Oklahoma Law School

  http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/

CIA government site

  http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/warindep/frames.html

George Washington's papers, University of Virginia

  http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/

  http://www.historyplace.com/

Public Broadcasting

  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/index.html

From the British point of view

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/empire/rebels_redcoats_01.shtml

Samuel Adams

  http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/samueladams.html

Paul Revere

  http://www.paulreverehouse.org/

  http://eserver.org/poetry/paul-revere.html

  http://www.city-net.com/~davekle/revere.htm

Sons of Liberty

  http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sons.htm

  http://earlyamerica.com/review/fall96/sons.html

  http://www.americansonsofliberty.com/

Daughters of Liberty

  http://www.fayettenam.com/history/remember.html

  http://www.teachingcompany.com/cp4/MDCondon.html

Boston Masaacre

  http://www.bostonmassacre.net/

  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/bostonmassacre/prest.htm

  http://earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/enlargement.html

Stamp Act

  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/stampactriots-tar.html

  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/stampact/sapitt.htm

  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/sugar_stamp/actxx.htm