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Road to Revolution
$200
This law was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764.
$400
This historical subject was an act of protest on December 16, 1773, during the American Revolution.
$600
This law was a British statute which taxed its American colonies' use of printed materials.
$800
These laws were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
$1000
These laws were a series of British acts of Parliament enacted in 1766 and 1767 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to enable administration of the British colonies in America.
Colonial Resistance
$200
This person was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States.
$400
This person was an American silversmith and military officer (1735–1818).
$600
This historical subject was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in the prelude to the American Revolution in Boston, in what was then the colony of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
$800
These organizations were a collection of American political organizations that sought to coordinate opposition to the British Parliament and, later, support for American independence during the American Revolution.
$1000
This historical subject was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to defend the rights of the colonists, including the right to representation in the British government trying to tax them.
Independence
$200
This document or agreement is the founding document of the United States.
$400
This military event was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War.
$600
This historical subject was the meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and Revolutionary War, which established American independence from Great Britain.
$800
This document or agreement was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America.
$1000
These military events were the first major military actions between the British Army and Patriot militias from British America's Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary Leaders
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This person was a Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801.
$400
This person was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809.
$600
This person was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797.
$800
This person was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786.
$1000
This person was an American polymath who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general.
War and Allies
$200
This historical subject was the winter encampment of the Continental Army, under the command of George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War.
$400
This military force was the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War.
$600
This military event was fought September 19 and October 7, 1777 over the same ground by the American Continental Army and the British Army near Saratoga, New York during the American Revolutionary War.
$800
This person was a French military officer and politician who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.
$1000
This person was a Prussian-born army officer who played a leading role in the American Revolutionary War by reforming the Continental Army into a disciplined and professional fighting force.
Victory and Government
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This document or agreement was an agreement ending the American Revolutionary War.
$400
This military event was the final major land engagement of the American Revolutionary War.
$600
This historical subject is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
$800
This document or agreement was a defensive alliance between the Kingdom of France and the United States formed amid the American Revolutionary War with Great Britain.
$1000
This document or agreement was an agreement and early body of law in the Thirteen Colonies, which served as the nation's first constitution during the American Revolution.
