Portal:American Revolution

Pre-war escalation

• Portal:Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament in 1774
  • Boston Port Act
  • Massachusetts Government Act
  • Administration of Justice Act
  • Quartering Act of 1774
  • Quebec Act
• Responses by the First Continental Congress in 1774
  • Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
  • Continental Association
  • Address to the People of Great Britain
  • To the Inhabitants of the Several Anglo-American Colonies
  • Letter to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec
  • Petition to the King
• Conciliatory Resolution passed by the British Parliament in 1775
• Responses by the Second Continental Congress in 1775
  • Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 6, 1775)
  • Olive Branch Petition (July 8, 1775)
• Halifax Resolves (1776)

Revolutionary War

• Lee Resolution and its original copy
• Declaration of Independence & "Original Rough Draught" of the Declaration of Independence
• Treaty of Paris (1783), in which the United Kingdom recognizes the United States
• The Hessians and the other German auxiliaries of Great Britain in the revolutionary war
• The German Element in the War of American Independence
• The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier

Analysis

• "The American Revolution", in Lectures on Modern History by John Acton (1906)
• "Sovereignty in the American Revolution", in The American Historical Review by Claude H. Van Tyne (1907)
• History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution by Mercy Otis Warren (1805)
• "The Sentiments of an American Woman", by Esther De Berdt Reed (1780)
• Timeline of the American Revolution by the Valley Forge National Historical Park division, United States National Park Service (2006)

Literature and poetry

• The Partisan by William Gilmore Simms (1835)
• "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
• "The American Rebellion" by Rudyard Kipling (1911)

See also

• Portal:United States