Betty DeWolfe Bruhmuller and Linda Young King -

Instructional Technology Specialists, Waltham Public Schools, Waltham, Massachusetts

Fictional Characters are original artwork of Kathryn Harding Wrona

Book List - Young Readers - Life in Colonial and Revolutionary War America:

http://www.carylibrary.org/children/CRcoloni6.html

Primary Source Documents:

Revolutionary War from History Central

http://www.multied.com/documents/Revolt.html

The American Colonist's Library

http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/

Index to American History Documents

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm

Documents For the Study of American History

http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

A map of Boston 1775

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/maps/1700s/boston1775.jpg

Stamps required by the Stamp Act

http://www2.gasou.edu/special_collections/artifacts/stamps.html

Excerpts taken from newspapers and other 18th century news sources

http://home.ptd.net/~revwar/index.html

10 Contemporary Accounts of the Battle of Bunker Hill

http://www.masshist.org/bh/accounts.html

 

Groups of People

What is a Loyalist?

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch3_p14.htm

http://www.uelac.org/loyalist.pdf

Thomas Hutchinson and Loyalists

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/hutchinson-loyalists.html

4th Company Foot Guards - The British Army in America

http://hometown.aol.com/Guardssite

The Redcoats

http://www.redcoat.org/
What is a Patriot?

http://www.norfolk.k12.ma.us/students/kaufman/revolution/sons_of_liberty.html

http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/fall96/sons.html

Early Troublemakers of the Revolution - "What Was the Problem?"

http://www.hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/RevAmerica/2-What/Troublemakers.htm

Women of the Revolution

http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/women.htm

Amazing women of the Revolution

http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets.html

"Hello, I am Deborah Sampson"

http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/cecsst/cecsst056.html

Liberty's Daughters

http://concordma.com/magazine/sept98/liberty.html

Spy Letters of the American Revolution

http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/index-stories.html

Black Participation in the War

http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/BLACKS.HTM

http://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/04_rev_stories.html

http://www.nps.gov/bost/bulletins/Salemp~1.pdf (this is an Acrobat file about Salem Poor)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p24.html (Crispus Attucks)

Native American Participation in the War

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/nativeamericans-jbrant.html (Joseph Brant)

General Links

The American Revolution Homepage

http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/Index2.htm

The American Revolution Index

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/revindex.htm

Kidport Reference Library - the American Revolution

http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/AmericanRevolution/AmerRevolution.htm

4th and 5th Grade Student Research Resources - American Revolution

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217/amrev.html

The American Revolution Multimedia Exhibit

http://www.historywiz.com/amerev-mm.htm

History Central

http://www.multied.com/revolt/causes.html

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

http://www.history.org/

American Revolution Home - a great selection of links

http://www.kidskonnect.com/AmericanRevolution/RevHome.html

Liberty Links from PBS

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/index.html

Colonial America - Fabulous list of links

http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Colonial.html

Revolutionary Events and People from Boston

http://www.boston-online.com/History/Revolutionary/

The Revolutionary War - A Journey Towards Freedom - links

http://hyperion.advanced.org/10966/

American Revolutionary War History Resources - A compilation of links

http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/amrev.html

Revolutionary War (lots of great links to people and events)

http://www.kathimitchell.com/revolt.htm

Colonial America 1600 - 1775, K12 Resources

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm

Social Studies for Kids - Revolutionary War - easy reading with links, timelines and activities

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/revolutionarywar.htm

Kid Info Reference Resources - Revolutionary War

http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/American_Revolution.html

Timelines

The Road to Revolution Timeline

http://www.norfolk.k12.ma.us/students/kaufman/revolution/R2R.html

Timeline 1764 - 1775

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/timeline.html

Prelude to Revolution - a timeline of events

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm

Kidport Reference Library - the American Revolution

http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/AmericanRevolution/AmerRevolution.htm

Specific Events:

The Sugar Act

The Sugar Act and Stamp Act

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/sugar_stamp/act01.htm

Sugar Act primary source: Go to Founding Era Document and click on British Government Documents

http://www.founding.com/library/

Currency Act primary source: Go to Founding Era Document and click on British Government Documents

http://www.founding.com/library/

Stamp Act

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/stampact.htm

http://www.history.org/History/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm

http://www.multied.com/revolt/stamptax2.html
Primary Source Documents relating to act

Stamp Act

http://www.founding.com/library/

Journal of the Stamp Act Congress

http://www.founding.com/library/

Quartering Act

http://www.founding.com/library/

William Pitt's opinion

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/stampact/sapitt.htm

Testimony of Benjamin Franklin in the British Parliament 1766

http://www.historywiz.com/stampact.htm

The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame-Stamp - One of the most famous and popular prints of the period.

http://www.history.org/History/teaching/tchcrpc1.cfm

The Townshend Acts

Primary source: Go to Founding Era Document and click on British Government Documents

http://www.founding.com/library/

Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer (John Dickenson)

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/townshend/dickII.htm

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~USA/D/1751-1775/townshend/dickIV.htm

Townshend Acts

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/townshen.htm

http://www.multied.com/revolt/Townshend.html

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761570278

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~USA/E/townshend/dutiesxx.htm

Young Ladies in Town

A song to appeal to the American women to support the boycott of British textiles - a result of the Townshend Acts of 1767

http://www.contemplator.com/america/yladies.html

Boston Massacre

http://www.historywiz.com/bostonmassacre.htm

http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/abs_bosmass.html

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/bostmass.htm

The Boston Massacre Trial

http://www.sjchs-history.org/massacre.html

Captain Thomas Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/bostonmassacre/prest.htm

Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre

http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/bostanon.html

Boston Tea Party

Tea Acts

http://www.historywiz.com/teatax.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/bostteap.htm

Accounts of the Tea Party

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/bostonteaparty-edenton.html

http://campus.northpark.edu/history//WebChron/USA/TeaParty.html

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/teaparty/bostonxx.htm

Eyewitness account of the Tea Party

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/teaparty.htm

Tea Act primary source

http://www.founding.com/library/

Boston Tea Party - Eyewitness Account

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/teaparty.htm
The Intolerable / Coercive Acts

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/intolera.htm

http://www.multied.com/revolt/Coercive.html

http://www.historywiz.com/intolerable.htm

http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/academics/LS/4/sstudies/Colonial/4K/4k98/4keoj.htm

Coercive Acts primary sources:

Go to Founding Era Document and click on British Government Documents

Administration of Justice Act:

http://www.founding.com/library/

Boston Port Act:

http://www.founding.com/library/

Massachusetts Government Act:

http://www.founding.com/library/

Quartering Act

http://www.founding.com/library/

First Continental Congress

An account of the Congress:

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0857555.html

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress:

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/resolves.htm

First Continental Congress

http://www.historywiz.com/continentalcongress.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/1cont.htm

Warnings from Loyalist Daniel Leonard

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/dleonard/leonard.htm

Carpenters Hall History

http://www.ushistory.org/carpentershall/history/tour/independence.htm

Lexington and Concord

General Information

http://www.historywiz.com/concord.htm

http://www.WPI.EDU/Academics/Depts/MilSci/BTSI/Lexcon/

http://www.kirtland.cc.mi.us/honors/braden/main.htm

http://www.kidport.com/reflib/usahistory/AmericanRevolution/LexingtonBattle.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/lexingto.htm

Primary Source Documents

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/lexington/lexingxx.htm

Lieutenant-Colonel Smith's account of the battle

http://www.hillsdale.edu/dept/History/War/America/Rev/1775-Lexington-Smith.htm

The Midnight Ride - Revere, Dawes and Prescott

http://www.paulreverehouse.org/midnight.html

Paul Revere's Neighborhood

http://www.cvesd.k12.ca.us/finney/paulvm/h3_map/mapfrst.html

A historical characterization of a rebel soldier

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle/continental.army.html

Second Continental Congress

Declaration of Causes of Taking Up Arms:

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/war/causes.htm

U.S. Congressional Documents: Journals of the Continental Congress

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwjc.html

The Olive Branch Petition

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/olivebra.htm

Second Continental Congress

http://www.kidport.com/reflib/usahistory/americanrevolution/secondcongress.htm

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/flames.html

http://www.historywiz.com/washington.htm

http://www.historywiz.com/independence.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/2cont.htm

Battle of Bunker (Breeds) Hill

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9198/revwar/bunkhill.htm

http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/AmericanRevolution/BunkerHillBattle.htm#The%20Battle%20of%20Bunker%20Hill

http://www.masshist.org/bh/

British Account of Bunker Hill

http://www.hillsdale.edu/dept/History/War/America/Rev/1775%2DBunker%2Dwaller.htm

History of Bunker Hill

http://members.tripod.com/~grgordon/bunkerhi.htm

Map of Battle of Bunker Hill

http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/BUNKER2.HTM

Teaching with Historic Places - Lesson Plans for Bunker Hill

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/42bunker/42bunker.htm

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