wunder beta🇺🇸 The American Revolution
How thirteen colonies broke from an empire and invented a republic.
What you’ll learn
- Explain the causes and opening events that turned colonial protest into armed rebellion.British efforts to tax the colonies after 1763 sparked resistance in Boston and beyond. Colonies coordinated through the Continental Congresses, and fighting began at Lexington and Concord in April 1775.
- Describe how the colonies declared independence and turned the tide of the war.The Declaration of Independence in 1776 made the break official. Despite early defeats, the 1777 victory at Saratoga brought a French alliance, and endurance at Valley Forge strengthened the Continental Army.
- Analyze how the war ended and how the new nation built a lasting government.Yorktown in 1781 and the 1783 Treaty of Paris secured independence. The weak Articles of Confederation were replaced by the Constitution, turning revolutionary ideals into a working, if imperfect, government.
Questions this course answers
What debt pushed Britain to tax the colonies more heavily after 1763?
Britain tried to recover the enormous debt from the French and Indian War (which ended in 1763) by taxing its American colonies.
The colonial slogan 'no taxation without representation' objected to what?
Colonists argued Parliament could not justly tax them because they had no elected representatives there.
Where did the first shots of the Revolutionary War occur on April 19, 1775?
British troops marching to seize supplies at Concord clashed with militia at Lexington and Concord, starting the war.
Who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration, adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776.
Why was the 1777 victory at Saratoga so important?
Saratoga proved the Americans could win and persuaded France to enter a formal alliance in 1778.
What did the winter at Valley Forge in 1777 to 1778 come to symbolize?
Despite terrible suffering, the army was drilled and disciplined at Valley Forge, making it a symbol of endurance.
Grounded in trusted sources
- U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 'The Declaration of Independence, 1776' (history.state.gov)
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'American Revolution: Causes, Battles, Aftermath, & Facts' (britannica.com)
- National Park Service, 'Timeline of the Revolution' (nps.gov/subjects/americanrevolution)
- American Battlefield Trust, 'American Revolution Timeline' (battlefields.org)
- Library of Congress, 'The American Revolution, 1763–1783' primary source timeline (loc.gov)
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