Articles related to "The American Revolution"

America had many "Founding Fathers". Yet, each one was inspired by a revolution with origins in social, political, economic and religious ideas and values.

Americans captured during the Revolutionary War were subjected to a policy of starvation and neglect designed to compel their enlistment in British forces or death.

The name, United Empire Loyalist is an honorific given to the British refugees from the American Revolution who resettled in British North America.

Born in 1751, James Madison, the fourth President of the United States was brought up in Orange County, Virginia.

The Publication of Thomas Paine's Common Sense may have been the pivotal event that galvanized colonial Englishmen into opposing the Crown and demanding independence.

James Monroe was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia in 1758.

George Washington is remembered for leading the United States to victory in the American Revolution and as the first President of the United States.

Before the Revolutionary War, a self-styled Aristocracy substituted slave labor for "artisan and mechanic" contributions of the middle class in the Northern Colonies.

British trade restrictions, economic control, and the imposing of martial law in America clashed with the colonies' tradition of self-governance, leading to war.

Mutually negative perceptions on the part of the colonists and the British during four colonial wars against France & huge war debts helped cause the American Revolution.

The allegory in My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne is more complex than in most of Hawthorne's short stories.

Selene Castrovilla and award-winning artists tell two little-known stories from the American Revolution in these picture books for kids.

Led by Colonel John Glover and his regiment from Marblehead, Massachusetts, a small group of Continental soldiers managed to fight off the British at Pelham, New York.

Part one of a three-part examination of the Mohawk War Chief Thayendanegea (Joseph Brant) and his fight against the American colonies.

The British Parliament's tax on tea was hated by the colonies. Resistance began in port cities, with the Sons of Liberty playing a major part.

The desire to link the French and American Revolutions stems from French help after the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 but the facts indicate other considerations.

The actions of Sir Henry Clinton and Admiral Sir Thomas Graves ensured that Lord Cornwallis would not receive expected relief as Washington marched south to Yorktown.

Although the former colonies were now fully independent, the new nation was plagued with problems in governance, commerce, and internal social concerns.

When Machias settlers heard of Lexington and Concord, they attacked a British ship picking up lumber for British barracks in Boston.

In his latest book, Fusiliers, Mark Urban provides a fascinating history of the Royal Welch Fusiliers and their role in the American War of Independence.

British General John Burgoyne's military career is most noted in the US for his surrender to the American army at Saratoga, bringing France into the American Revolution.

Called the definitive biography, the first Secretary of War is restored to American consciousness as if being led to a few gold bars from his memorialized Fort Knox.

In the American Revolution, Native Americans were used by both sides, but in the end they were abandoned.

Resistance to the high-handedness of the British parliament began with James Otis. He opposed the Writs of Assistance, and resigned his position rather than defend them.

Rousseau used the Social Contract to expand and further develop his social, philosophical, and political ideas and concepts. The Social Contract established the liberal

Fighting during the American Revolution included not only separatists, or Patriot, militias, but also armed groups of loyalists who sided with the English Crown.

Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, came from a life of privilege living on plantations in Virginia.

Part I of the history of the Veteran Corps of Artillery of the State of New York and the Military Society of the War of 1812.

Privateering was a vital part of the United States' early sea power, as well as an investment. Here is a look at its cost for investors.

Tarring and feathering will always be associated with the days leading to the American Revolution as a cruel tool for intimidation.

The Continental Army was the only integrated Army in the US until 1950. Necessity and a few open-minded people called for minority participation in the Revolutionary War.

During the war Col. John Laurens fought for something almost no one else did, especially aristocratic white slave owners from the south: Freedom and Justice for slaves!

The American Revolution contributed to the French Revolution both indirectly by changing ideas about government and directly by harming the French economy.

Guilford Courthouse was the decisive battle of the Southern Campaign in the American Revolution, and forced General Cornwallis to retreat to Yorktown.

The DAR is a historical and genealogical organization that is open to any women descended from an American patriot. Their resource library is valuable to genealogists.

George Whitefield woke them up. Jonathon Edwards went to war for their souls. America found cause for a new spiritual freedom, inspiring the political Revolution in 1776!

In 1763, following the surrender of New France, the former French colony was turned over to Great Britain and renamed the Province of Quebec.

The Marquis de Lafayette volunteered in the American Revolution, befriended George Washington, protected the French royal family and was Napoleon's adversary.

The Minutemen and Their World, authored by Robert A. Gross, is a well written and easy to read work which focuses on the town of Concord, Massachusetts.

The murder of Jane McCrae brought a surge of volunteers to the Patriot cause during the American Revolution against the British and their commissioned Indians.

Margaret Corbin, Molly Pitcher and Deborah Sampson actively participated in the American Revolution and fought for democracy and the freedom we now enjoy.

Baron von Steuben trained soldiers at Valley Forge during the American Revolution and enacted important regulations for the training and maintaining of the American Army.

The celebrated English novelist Jane Austen's village-centered stories bely her real knowledge and interest of the international events of her day.

In his famous book "The American Revolution: Revolution Without Dogma," Daniel J. Boorstin argues the American Revolution was essentially a conservative movement.

Money problems, an outdated social system and the influence of the American Revolution all played a role in the start of the French Revolution.

An underestimation of colonial strength and resolve as well as an internal lack of command coordination resulted in British failures to end the colonial revolt.

The American Revolution divided the US. Those faithful to Britain went to Canada - soldiers, freed slaves, indentured servants and families- as United Empire Loyalists

This idea rounds out a History unit in Social Studies homeschooling programs and lets homeschoolers see how Colonists really felt about taxation without representation.

Why did James Madison ask Congress to declare war on Great Britain in 1812? Why did the United States invade Canada? What were the causes of the War of 1812?

California's cities and counties designated historic landmarks by the hundred. What they miss is picked up by private organizations in an incredible historical richesse.