American revolution

American Revolution

  • stamp act

    stamp act
    The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
  • John Adams

    John Adams
    John Adams was a leader of the American Revolution, and served as the second U.S. president from 1797 to 1801.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
  • Lexington

    Lexington
    the first battle of the American Revolutionary War and the Battle of Concord.
  • General George Washington

    General George Washington
    The Continental Congress selected George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House.
  • king gorge the III

    England’s longest-ruling monarch before Queen Victoria, King George III ascended the British throne in 1760.