A guide to the major people, places, ideas, and events of colonial and revolutionary times.
Content Note
John Adams -- Samuel Adams -- Algonquians -- Ethan Allen -- Anglican Church -- Benedict Arnold -- Articles of Confederation -- Daniel Boone -- Boston Massacre -- Boston Tea Party -- British Army -- Bunker Hill -- George Rogers Clark -- Clothing -- Congregational Church -- Connecticut -- Continental Congresses -- Declaration of Independence -- Delaware -- Family Life: Farm/Village -- Farming and Fishing -- Foreign Aid -- Foreign Generals -- Benjamin Franklin -- Free African Americans -- Free Speech/Free Press -- French and Indian War -- Games and Sports -- King George III -- Georgia -- Nathan Hale -- Alexander Hamilton -- John Hancock -- Patrick Henry -- Intolerable Acts -- Inventions -- Iroquois Confederacy -- Jamestown -- John Jay -- Thomas Jefferson -- John Paul Jones -- Henry Knox -- Marquis de Lafayette -- Lexington and Concord -- Loyalists -- James Madison -- Francis Marion -- Maryland -- Massachusetts -- Medicine/Disease -- Metacom -- Minutemen -- Mohawk -- Music, Dancing, and Theater -- New Hampshire -- New Jersey -- Newspapers -- New York -- North Carolina -- Other British Colonies -- Tom Paine -- Parliament -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Eliza Pinckney -- Plymouth -- Pocahontas -- Pontiac -- Powhatan Confederacy -- Puritans and Pilgrims -- Quakers -- Walter Raleigh -- Religious Freedom -- Paul Revere -- Rhode Island -- Roanoke -- Betsy Ross -- Benjamin Rush -- Salem Witch Trials -- Saratoga -- School Life -- Ships -- Slavery -- John Smith -- Sons of Liberty -- South Carolina -- Spanish Colonies -- Stamp Act -- Sugar Act -- Taxation -- Tools -- Trade -- Transportation -- Treaty of Paris -- Trenton and Princeton -- United States Constitution -- Valley Forge -- Virginia -- George Washington -- John Winthrop -- Women's Lives -- Yorktown.