American Revolution Research
American Revolution Reference Library
Enduring Understanding
People may change political systems by working within the system or outside the system. However, when a political system won't change, people may try to abolish it and create a new system. This may cause violent conflicts.
| Essential Questions | Indicators |
| What is the government supposed to do? | Identify how political ideas shape the revolutionary movement in America.( MSDE indicator) |
| Why do people try to make change? | Sequence the escalation of tension that led to the American Revolution. (MSDE indicator) |
How can people create change? |
Interpret, evaluate and organize primary and secondary sources.(MSDE indicator) |
| How can change sometimes lead to violent conflict? | Describe key events and the roles of key individuals in the American Revolution, with emphasis on George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine. (MCPS indicator) |
| Do violent conflits achieve goals? | Analyze views, lives and contributions of people of the Revolutionary period. (MCPS indicator) |
Creating America Textbook Links
Battle of Bunker Hill
- Bunker Hill
- War of Independence, June 17, 1775
- Eyewitness Narrative prepared about two Weeks After the Battle of Bunker Hill
- Boston National Park: The Battle of Bunker Hill
- 'The Decisive Day is Come'
- Battle of Bunker (Breed’s Hill)
Battle of Lexington and Concord
- War of Independence, April 19, 1775
- Battle of Lexington
- Battle of Lexington-Introduction
- MHS: Coming of the American Revolution: Lexington and Concord
- The Battle of Concord
Battle of Saratoga
- Burgoyne Surrenders at Saratoga!
- WPI Department of Military Science: Battle of Saratoga
- Abstract- Map of Saratoga
- History Central/ British Surrender at Saratoga
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Yorktown
Benedict Arnold
Boston Massacre
- Colonial America, 1770
- Captain Thomas Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre
- Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre
- American Treasures of the Library of Congress
- Boston Massacre Trials
- The Boston Massacre
- Crispus Attucks
Boston Tea Party
- Colonial America, December 16, 1773
- Boston Tea Party: Ships & Museum
- Boston Tea Party
- Freedom: A History of U.S.
- The History Place: Boston Tea Party
- An Outline of American History
- High Tea In Boston Harbor
British Loyalists
Common Sense
- Thomas Paine's The Crisis, Number One, 1776
- An Outline of American Literature
- Thomas Paine's Common Sense
- An Outline of American History
- Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence
- The Charters of Freedom
- The Declaration of Independence
- Independence!
- Archiving Early America: Declaration of Independence
- The History Place: The Declaration of Independence
First Continental Congress
- Proceedings of the First Continental Congress
- First Continental Congress: Colonial America, 1774
- Continental Congress
- First Continental Congress-October 1774
Intolerable Acts
Patrick Henry's Speech
Proclamation of 1763
- Proclamation of 1763
- Colonial America, The Grenville Program
- The Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763
Second Continental Congress
- Second Continental Congress
- Defining Documents
- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms
Sugar Act and Stamp Act
- Sugar Act of 1764
- Stamp Act
- The Stamp Act of 1765
- The Stamp Act and The Sugar Act
- Stamp Tax Imposed
- An Outline of American History: Stamp Act
- Liberty: The American Revolution
Townshend Act
- The Townshend Act
- Townshend Acts Impose on the Colonies 1767
- An Outline of American History: Townshend Acts
Treaty Of Paris
- Wars and Battles, War for Independence
- The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783
- The Paris Peace Treaty:Context
Valley Forge
- The Story of Valley Forge
- Who Served Here: Washington's Officers at Valley Forge
- From the Diary of Albigence Waldo, Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777