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A notable slave uprising took place in South Carolina in September 1739. A literate Angolan led a large group of captive Africans in an armed insurrection against White colonists. The militia suppressed the rebellion after a battle in which both enslaved people and militiamen were killed, and the remaining rebels were executed or sold to enslavers in the West Indies.

During the winter of 1777–1778, the British occupied Philadephia while Washington’s army camped at this spot in Pennsylvania. Washington’s winter was a low point for the American forces. A lack of supplies weakened the men, and disease took a heavy toll. Amid the cold, hunger, and sickness, soldiers deserted in droves.

A confrontation between a crowd of Bostonians and British soldiers on March 5, 1770, resulted in the deaths of five people, including Crispus Attucks, the first official casualty in the war for independence

The laxness with which the English crown enforced the Navigation Acts in the eighteenth century

This Act (1764) lowered duties on British molasses by half, from six pence per gallon to three. Grenville designed this measure to address the problem of rampant colonial smuggling with the French sugar islands in the West Indies.

The American Revolution was concluded by the signing of this document.

Minutemen met the British troops first at one village and skirmished with them and then at another.  These famous confrontations became the basis for Emerson’s 1836 description as the “shot heard round the world.” 

What is meant by the term DEISM?

Leader of the Continental Army and First President of the United States

Well-born British colonial women who led a non-importation movement against British goods