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 * Key Concept 3.2: **The American Revolution’s democratic and republican ideals inspired new experiments with different forms of government.

For resources, see

 * ** U. S. History I.3 on Thomas Jefferson and the writing of the Declaration of Independence **


 * **U. S. History I.5 on the role of Massachusetts in the Revolution**
 * **See Dramatic Event page on the Boston Massacre**


 * **World History I.8** on English Law and its Development including the Magna Carta


 * **World History I.34** **on Enlightenment philosophers**


 * **Grade 5.17 on the Revolutionary War**
 * **Grade 5.18 for achievements of important leaders during the Revolution**


 * **United States Government 2.2** ** on founding documents **


 * **United States History I.6**** on the Articles of Confederation and Shays' Rebellion **


 * ** United States History 1.7 on the Constitutional Convention and the Great Compromise **


 * Key Concept 3.3: **Migration within North America and competition over resources, boundaries and trade intensified conflicts among peoples and nations.

//[|Paspahegh,]// a virtual recreation of a Native American village in Virginia from Virtual Jamestown.

[|Portsmouth Peace Treaty of 1713]was negotiated with the Wabanaki people of New Hampshire and Maine and English colonists at the end of Queen Anne's War.
 * The treaty was a treaty of submission in which native peoples, used an oral tradition, agreed to written limitations on their territories and rights, including boundaries and promises that were subsequently broken by European colonists.
 * It acknowledged New Hampshire's government as separate from Massachusetts.
 * It opened Portsmouth as a commercial and military hub.

For more on relationships between native peoples and Europeans, see Grade 5.6

**Additional Teaching and Learning Resources**
For information on colonist reactions to acts Great Britain imposed on America, visit [|Making the Revolution: Crisis 1763-1775], where you can find compilations of primary documents from Patriot and Loyalist colonists.
 * [|What are the essential founding documents]? Click for insights from one historian.

See also [|Re-Examining the Revolution] by Ray Raphael from his book, //Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past,// 2004.

[|100 Milestone Documents]. See also [|Making the Revolution: America 1763-1791] from the National Humanities Center.

For background, see [|The Coming of the American Revolution] from the Massachusetts Historical Society.

[|The Truth about Betsy Ross] from Colonial Williamsburg discusses the forming of the American flag. See also Betsy Ross entry on the Influential Women in American History page.

[|Wrong and Dangerous: Ten Right-Wing Myths about Our Constitution]. Garrett Epps (Rowan & Littlefield, 2013).

For a discussion of the question of whether African Americans supported the colonists or the British, see [|Dunmore's Proclamation: A Time to Choose] from Colonial Williamsburg.



**Loyalists During the Revolution**
For information on those who supported the British, see [|Loyalists During the American Revolution]

See also, [|Loyalists and Loyalism in the American Revolution] from The Ohio State University.

[|Plain Truth]by James Chalmers, written in response to Thomas Paine's Common Sense. Go here for [|Selected Paragraphs from Plain Truth]with original and abridged text

For more, see [|Africans in America: The Revolutionary War]
 * 10,000 African Americans escaped, died or were killed during the Revolution.
 * 5,000 Blacks served in the Continental Army.
 * In 1775, George Washington barred recruitment for further Black soldiers; he later permitted Rhode Island to raise a regiment of free blacks and slaves.
 * Lord Dunmore issued a proclamation of freedom to slaves who supported the British cause; Colonel Tye led a brigade of 800 Black Loyalists in New York and New Jersey.

[|Colonel Tye]was a feared guerilla leader of Loyalist Blacks during the Revolution.

**See also, Grade 5.17 for information on the roles of African Americans and women during the Revolution.**