A soldier of the American army during the revolution. It was also the useless paper money issued by Congress to pay for the war.

And assembly of representatives from the American colonies which operated as the legislative body during the revolutionary period.

A production of document, book, painting or item

Citizen soldiers who were called out for emergencies to defend their homes in villages. Militias were first formed in New England to guard against Indian attacks.

Colonial militia who had pledged to fight the British at a minutes notice. They fought the British at Lexington and concord in April of 1775 to begin the American rev.

The official governing body of Great Britain made up the House of Lords and the House of Commons

Small, privately owned merchant ships that were fitted out with weapons to capture British merchant shipping

British slang term for an American ( or patriot) not loyal to Britain during the war

Slang term for British soldiers who wore scarlet red uniform jackets.

Secret group of radicals for my Sam Adams to protest the stamp act. That use violence such as target and feathering to punish loyalists and to protest British policies.

Famous phrase from Ralph Waldo Emerson poem about the first shot of the revolutionary war at Lexington and Concorde, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775.