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Learn About the Revolutionary War in Two Days
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Have a weekend free and want to learn about the Revolutionary War?
Impress your friends with your history knowledge.
Learn about the Revolutionary War over the weekend:
- Gain a quick overview of the American Revolutionary War:
- Browse the Revolutionary War Timeline to help put the war’s events into context and relationships.
- Read American Revolution Facts to learn basic facts, dates, and information about the war while answering commonly asked questions.
- Watch the Revolutionary War Animated Map. This 18-minute video chronologically follows the war’s events from Lexington to Yorktown.
- Read about The Intolerable Acts and the Boston Massacre to learn why the colonists took up arms against Great Britain.
- Watch videos about and influential battles throughout the war, like the battles of Lexington and Concord and Brandywine.
- Meet influential people from both sides of the conflict by reading their biographies, such as George Washington and Charles Cornwallis.
- Browse original documents from the Revolutionary War, such as Common Sense by Thomas Paine and the Declaration of Independence to learn about the tumultuous political sphere
- Learn about the different wartime strategies that the British and the Continental Army employed during the war.
- Explore the lives of everyday soldiers with articles like Three Men from Acton and Human Heroes.
- Gain an understanding of the far-reaching impact of the war by reading the Treaty of Paris and watching Wars for Independence In4.
- Understand how the war was remembered and memorialized with the video Monuments of the Revolutionary War In4 and the article The Society of Cincinnati.
- Finish by exploring the technologies used during the war, such as Small Arms Weapon and Gunpowder.
Total time: 858 minutes (14.3 hours)
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