By reading this section from a chapter on "Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests," students will be able to describe the state of affairs between the colonies and the home government in 1774 and explain the purpose and results of the...

Kids learn about The Continental Congress meetings; major events in the American Revolutionary War.

Biography of Oliver Ellsworth who represented Connecticut in the Continental Congress and also was a promoter of the Connecticut Compromise.

A biography of the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and author of some of the Federalist Papers.

Read a brief overview of the life of Samuel Adams, one of the founding fathers of the United States. Links to other resources about Adams are included.

View copies of three original documents that are letters between political leaders concerning the Declaration of Independence.

This article tells of a prominent Massachusetts lawyer who wrote a series of letters expressing the Loyalist point of view.

Perhaps if King George III had been attentive to the colonists' pleas, things would have turned out differently. Read about the siege of Boston by the British troops, and the "shot heard around the world."

Biographical accounts of fifty men who played a wide variety of roles in bringing about America's break with Great Britain, and in the creation of the documents and plans that created the new nation, like the Declaration of Independence,...