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Charles Montesquieu
Charles Montesquieu's was a French philosopher. His ideas were important in the political debate between the Founding Fathers. It was his theory on the separation of powers between the legislative, executive and judicial branches that became one of the strong and main ideas in the US constitution. -
Sam Adams
Sam Adams was a political theorist who protested against British taxation without representation and brought together the American colonies in the fight for independence. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere took part in the Boston Tea Party and was the main person for Boston's Committee of Safety. He used lanterns to warn the minutemen of a British invasion. -
John Hancock
John Hancock was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence. He was one of Boston's leaders during the lead up to the Revolutionary War. He served 2 years in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. -
Brigadier General Benedict Arnold
Brigadier General Benedict Arnold was a senior officer of the British Army who was born in America. He led the American Legion in the later part of the Revolutionary War. He is known for his disloyalty to the colonists for committing treason when he betrayed the Continental Army and joined the British in 1780. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the main person who wrote the Declaration of Independence and was the person who wrote all the key details. He was also the 3rd president of the United States. During the Revolutionary War he was vice president under John Adams, and also served in the Continental Congress and in the Virginia legislature. -
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the main political advisor to her husband, John Adams, who was the second president of the United States. She was the First Lady to live in what now is the white house. -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War gave Britain a lot of new territory in North America. The French Indian War ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The cost of the war led the colonists to protest against the British and helped cause the American Revolution. -
Alexander Hamiltion
Alexander Hamiltion was in the military when the Revolutionary War began. In 1777 he became a senior assistant to General Washington and helped run the new continental army. He also helped write the U.S. Constitution. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was passed to force the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks given to them by the colonies. They were housed in inns, ale houses and barns. This was one of the reasons the colonists gave as why they wanted freedom from the English. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was passed by the British to end the smuggling trade of sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies. They wanted the colonists to buy their sugar to give them more money after everything they lost during the French and Indian War. This made many colonists unhappy. The Sugar Act was also called the Plantation Act and Revenue Act. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that happened in Griffin's Wharf in Boston. It happened because of the British forcing taxation without representation on the colonists. In protest, the colonists poured 342 chests of tea imported from the British East India company into the Boston Harbor. -
The Boston Port Act
The Boston Port Act happened because of all the tea dumped into the harbor during the Boston Tea Party. The British parliament closed the port of Boston and wanted people to pay 1 million dollars worth of tea that was dumped into the harbor. -
The Quebec Act
The Quebec Act was passed by the British to gain loyalty of the French speaking majority of the province of Quebec. It took away the Royal Proclamation in 1763 and that made the French-Canadians follow the British Rule. It was considered one of the “Intolerable Acts” and was part of the reason colonists gave for starting the revolution. -
Minutemen
Minutemen were the first good test run of soldiers of the colonial army for the Lexington and Concord battles. They were known to be ready in a minute because of how quickly they trained and were ready for war. -
The Bunker Hill battle
The Bunker Hill battle was one of the early battles of the American Revolution. The battle was named after Bunker Hill in Charles-town, Massachusetts. -
Hessian's
Hessian's were a group of 30,000 German soldiers that were hired by the British to help fight in the Revolutionary War against the colonists. One of the battles that they were in was the Battle of Trenton. -
The Lexington and Concord battles
The Lexington and Concord battles were the first military contact between the American colonists and the British in the American Revolutionary War. They were fought in Middlesex County, province of Massachusetts Bay within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotamy and Cambridge. -
The Saratoga Battle
The Saratoga Battle was considered one of the most intense battles between the British and the Americans. The battle was an important win for the Americans against the British. It took place in Stillwater, Saratoga County, in New York in 1777 and was a turning point for the Continental Army. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1783 was signed by King George the lll of Great Britain and by representatives of the United States Of America. The Treaty of Paris officially ended the Revolutionary War and created boundaries between the English Empire and North America.
