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Revolutionary War Period -
Dewey 973.3


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OVERALL REVOLUTIONARY WAR

• Town Crier - Revolutionary War
• American colonies  
• Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre (1770)(see: 973.3113)

PERIODS OF REVOLUTION AND CONFEDERATION, 1775-1789

Social, political, economic causes of revolution

• Non-importation Act (1783)  

Commercial restrictions

Quartering troops, Boston Massacre, 1770

• Boston Massacre Trials of 1770 - An Account
• Images of 1770 events and Boston Massacre
• Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre (1770)(see: 973.3)
• Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770  
• John Adams involved in the Boston Massacre trial (see: 973.441)

Tea Tax, 1773

• Boston Tea Party - December 16, 1773

Boston Port Bill, 1774

Continental Congress

Declaration of Independence, 1776

• Crafted at Independence Hall, Philadelphia by Thomas Jefferson

Treaty of Paris of 1783

• Treaty of Paris - October 4, 1783

Period of Confederation, 1783-1789

Aspects of the American Revolution

Constitutional Convention

• Thomas Paine emigrates to America in 1774.
• Patrick Henry speaks before the Virginia convention. [" Give me liberty or give me death" speech]
• Image of Paul Revere and William Dawes event where British soldiers are approaching Concord.(974.4011)
• Delegates to the Constitutional Convention  
• Betsy Ross (1752-1836) of Pennsylvania (see: 923.210)
• Dolley Payne Todd Madison (1768-1849)(see: 923.121)
• Declaration of Independence (see: 973.05)
• Drafting the Declaration of Independence and other Freedom Documents

Research generated by students

• Quebec Act of 1774  
• Fort Ticonderoga - 1775
• Declaration of Independence drafted in 1776. (see: 973.051)
• Constitution of the United States - background

Operations of 1775

• Battle of Camden, SC (August 16, 1780) - Revolutionary War (see: 975.7)

Battles of 1776-January,1777

• Battles of Lexington and Concord - April, 1775 (see: 974.4033)
• On the Lexington Green
• Battles of Bunker Hill - June, 1775 (see: 974.4033)
• Battle of Trenton after Washington crosses the Delaware River.
• Eyewitness Account of the Battle of Trenton (1776) after Washington crosses the Delaware River.

Battles of 1777

• Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (1777)  

African-American (Slavery) [1775-1789]

Native Americans [1775-1789]

• Native American and colonial friction  

Peace under the Articles of Confederaton, 1783-1789

• Northwest Ordinance (1787) passes the Continental Congress.

Constitution Period, 1789-1809

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