Revolutionary War Web Sites for Kids


	Revolutionary War Events: Overview of the Revolutionary War - Outline of American History - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/chap3.htm includes biographies, essays, and documents Revolutionary War Unit from Greentown Elementary North Canton, OH http://www.northcantonschools.org/~elem/revwar.htm American Revolution Timeline from The History Place http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/ Everything You Want to Know About the Revolutionary War http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/ American Revolution timeline from PBS - http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_timeline.html Newspaper Chronicles - http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle.html American Revolution web sites http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/revolutionarywar/ Timelines http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/timeline.html http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/TIMELINE.HTM http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/AmericanRevolution/AmerRevolution.htm#Timeline Revolutionary War events from US History.org http://www.ushistory.org Archiving Early America - info, puzzles, other sites, forums http://earlyamerica.com/ Revolutionary War hotlists from Jerrie Cheek - lots of links http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/amrevol.html Battles - maps and information - http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1197.html Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and Trenton - Bennington - Saratoga Major battles of the War (a table) - http://www.srcalifornia.com/ Revolutionary War sites from North Polk High School Media Center http://hs.n-polk.k12.ia.us/departments/media/amerev.html Spy Letters of the American Revolution http://www2.si.umich.edu/spies/people.html Declaration of Independence: Library of Congress - http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara1.html Early America - http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/doi/index.html National Archives - http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/index.html Users Guide to the Declaration of Independence - http://www.founding.com/ Biographies of the signers of the Declaration - http://www.colonialhall.com/biodoi.asp More Biographies - http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/index.htm Transcript of the Declaration - http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html Transcript of the Constitution - http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html* Transcript of the Bill of Rights - http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html PBS - American Revolution - Liberty! - http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/ Road to Revolution game - http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html PEOPLE: George Washington - Library of Congress - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html Letters of George Washington - from University of Virginia (see acrostics) http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/ George Washington biography - http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewashington/ George Washington papers and addresses - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/gw1/gw1.htm George Washington biography - http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/gwash.html George Washington biography - http://www.american-presidents.com/george-washington George Washington Biography Lesson - http://www.mountvernon.org/learn/meet_george/index.cfm/ Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington Martha Washington - http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/liveproduction/martha-dandridge-custis-washington Martha W - http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=1 Martha Washington - http://marthawashington.us/ Martha from US History.org - http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/martha.html Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Washington John Adams - second president - http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/johnadams/ Patriot and second president - http://www.famousamericans.net/benjaminedes/John-Adams.org/ Another biography - http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/johnadams1.htm A Biography - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/ja2/about/bio/adamsxx.htm Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams John Adams and the Boston Massacre - lesson plans for a trial - http://web.archive.org/web/20050306124115/http://64.226.212.131/03_educators/teacher/boston.htm Abigail Adams - wife of second president - http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies/abigailadams More biographies - http://www.abigailadams.org/ http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/bio/adams_a.htm http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=2 Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Adams Samuel Adams - American patriot and revolutionary http://www.colonialhall.com/adamss/adamss.php The life of Samuel Adams - http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/ADAMS2.HTM http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h645.html Samuel Adams from History Central - http://www.historycentral.com/Bio/RevoltBIOS/AdamsSamuel.html Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams Ethan Allen - American hero - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/allen/allenxx.htm Biographies - http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/allen.htm http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/thefort/History/EthanAllen.htm http://www.uvm.edu/~vhnet/hertour/eallen/eahistory.html http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/army/p/EthanAllen.htm Reading and quiz - http://academics.smcvt.edu/lwilliams/VT_Readings/Ethan_Allen/ethan_allen.htm Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Allen Major John Andre - British spy - http://www.ushistory.org/march/bio/andre.htm John Andre, Spy, from U-S-History - http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1276.html Also a short bio of John Andre - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/andre.html Major John Andre http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_II/majorjohn_hg.html Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Andre Benedict Arnold - American traitor - http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/arnold.html Another Benedict Arnold - http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/fall97/arnold.html Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold Teacher's Guide from Cobblestone Magazine about Arnold http://www.cobblestonepub.com/resources/cob9911t.html Crispus Attucks - African American hero - http://www.essortment.com/all/crispusattucks_rhqa.htm Also Crispus Attucks from PBS - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p24.html Another Crispus Attucks site - http://www.africawithin.com/bios/crispus_attucks.htm Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispus_Attucks Josiah Bartlett - http://www.colonialhall.com/bartlett/bartlett.php Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Bartlett John Burgoyne - http://www.masshist.org/bh/burgoynebio.html Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burgoyne George Rogers Clark - http://www.in.gov/history/2339.htm Additional resources - http://www.in.gov/history/2958.htm http://www.in.gov/history/2973.htm http://www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/kygrclark.htm Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rogers_Clark Charles Cornwallis - http://www.patriotresource.com/amerrev/people/britisharmy/cornwallis.html http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/corn.htm http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1304.html Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cornwallis Benjamin Franklin Patriot, inventor, statesman from the Franklin Institute http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html More Ben Franklin sites - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/franklin.htm http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/ http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/ http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/ Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin Ben Franklin for Kids- http://bensguide.gpo.gov/benfranklin/ The Electric Ben Franklin - http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/ Worksheet to accompany the Ben Franklin web site - click here After researching above, try the quiz at http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/franklin-sw.htm Thomas Gage - British general - http://www.clements.umich.edu/Webguides/Arlenes/G/Gage.html More Gage biographies - http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/gage.htm http://www.patriotresource.com/amerrev/people/britisharmy/gage.html http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1292.html http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/americanrevolutio1/p/gage.htm Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gage Horatio Gates - http://www.patriotresource.com/amerrev/people/continentals/gates.html http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/gates.htm http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/revwar/image_gal/indeimg/gates.html http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Gates_Horatio.html Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Gates Nathanael Greene - http://www.patriotresource.com/amerrev/people/continentals/greene.html Quartermaster Nathanael Greene - http://www.qmfound.com/MG_Nathanael_Greene.htm More about Greene - http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/greene.html Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathanael_Greene Nathan Hale - Connecticut hero - http://www.connecticutsar.org/patriots/hale_nathan.htm More Nathan Hale from CIA - https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol17no4/pdf/v17i4a03p.pdf https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/6-12th-grade/operation-history/revolutionary-war.html#nate https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2007-featured-story-archive/nathan-hale.html Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Hale Nathan Hale for Kids includes facts and activities - http://ursamajor.hartnet.org/als/nathanhale/trail.htm Patrick Henry - Virginia Orator - http://www.history.org/Almanack/people/bios/biohen.cfm More Patrick Henry - http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/henry.htm http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/henry.htm http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h606.html Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Henry John Hancock - Signer of Declaration - http://www.colonialhall.com/hancock/hancock.php More John Hancock - http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/hancock.htm http://www.johnhancock.org/ http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/hancoc.htm Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock William Howe - British General - http://earlyamerica.com/review/2001_winter_spring/howe_1.html More William Howe - http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0824356.html http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/howe.htm http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h667.html http://www.historynet.com/general-sir-william-howe.htm Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howe,_5th_Viscount_Howe Thomas Jefferson from PBS - Writer of the Declaration and President http://www.pbs.org/jefferson More Jefferson sites - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/about/jeffersonxx.htm http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/thomasjefferson/ http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/tjefferson.html http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/jefferson.htm http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/ http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/tjeffers.htm Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson Explore Monticello where Thomas Jefferson lived - http://www.monticello.org Jefferson worksheet - http://www.kathimitchell.com/tjwork.html Teacher's Guide for Cobblestone Magazine about Jefferson http://www.cobblestonepub.com/resources/cob8909t.html John Paul Jones - Naval hero -http://www.schoonerman.com/jpaulj.htm More John Paul Jones - http://web2.iadfw.net/lrs/jones.html http://www.history.navy.mil/bios/jones_jp.htm http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/jones.htm http://www.seacoastnh.com/jpj/ Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones Thaddeus Kosciuszko - http://www.polishamericancenter.org/Kosciuszko.htm http://www.polishamericancenter.org/KosciuszkoHistory.htm http://www.polishworld.com/polemb/const/tk.html http://21stcenturycicero.wordpress.com/friends/poland/tadeusz-kosciuszko/ A Polish Son of Liberty - http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/thaddeus-kosciuszko Another Kosciuszko site - http://www.ushistory.org/tour/kosciuszko.htm Marquis de Lafayette - http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/lafayette.html http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/lafayett.htm http://www.history.org/almanack/people/bios/biolafayette.cfm Google book about Lafayette Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Lafayette Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion military leader from South Carolina http://www.patriotresource.com/amerrev/people/patriots/marion.html Swamp Fox from Greenwood School District - http://www.gwd50.k12.sc.us/FrancisMarion.htm Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Marion Francis Marion - http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/marion.htm http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1289.html Google book about Marion plus another Google book Teacher's Guide for 2001 Cobblestone issue about Francis Marion http://www.cobblestonepub.com/resources/cob0112t.html James Otis - lawyer and revolutionary - http://www.foundersofamerica.org/jotis.html http://www.history1700s.com/articles/article1139.shtml http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1204.html James Otis -http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/sscape/jotis.html Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Otis,_Jr. Thomas Paine - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/tpaine/paine.htm More Thomas Paine - http://www.ushistory.org/paine/ http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/paine.html http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/paine.htm http://www.thomaspainesociety.org/ Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine Read Thomas Paine's Common Sense - http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/commonsense/text.html Kasimir Pulaski (also Casimir) - Chicago Public Library - http://cpl.lib.uic.edu/003cpl/pulaskibiog.html Another Pulaski site - http://www.newbedford.k12.ma.us/elementary/casimir.htm http://www.polishamericancenter.org/Pulaski.htm http://polskiinternet.com/english/casimirpulaski.html http://www.plav.org/pulaski.htm http://www.pulaskiparade.com/pulaski.shtml Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Pulaski Paul Revere - http://www.paulreverehouse.org/bio/bio.shtml More Paul Revere - http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/revere/chapt1/index.html http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/revere.htm http://www.americanrevolution.org/revere.html http://www.patriotresource.com/amerrev/people/patriots/revere.html http://www.paul-revere-heritage.com/ http://www.masshist.org/education/resources/blackington/paul_revere.pdf http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/revere/ Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere Paul Revere in NH? from SeacoastNH - http://www.seacoastnh.com/history/rev/revere.html The Midnight Ride - http://www.historynet.com/paul-reveres-true-account-of-the-midnight-ride.htm Betsy Ross - http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/ Her Life - http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flaglife.html http://www.betsyrosshouse.org/hist_woman/ http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blross.htm http://betsyrossfacts.com/ Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Ross Revolutionary War flags - http://www.anyflag.com/history/ Deborah Samson Fought in the Revolutionary War http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets.html Deborah Samson - http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/sampson.html http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/deborah-sampson/ http://www.canton.org/samson/ http://www.sharonhistoricalsociety.org/All_Else/All_Pages/DEBORAH%20SAMPSON.pdf http://www.revolutionarywararchives.org/womansoldier.html Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Sampson Benjamin Tallmadge Soldier/spy who captured Major Andre http://aphdigital.org/projects/culperspyring/tallmadge http://www.btdistrict.org/id124.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tallmadge Newsday Stories about Tallmadge and the spies: Washington http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs417a,0,6764482.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs419a,0,7026628.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs420a,0,6043580.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs430a,0,6240189.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation The Culper Gang - http://www2.si.umich.edu/spies/stories-networks-3.html http://franklaughter.tripod.com/cgi-bin/history/culper.html The Setauket Spies - http://www.threevillagehistoricalsociety.org/18thcent.html Tench Tilghman - assistant to George Washington http://web.archive.org/web/20040721084111/http://www.thatharfordsite.com/history/maryland/tench_tilghman.htm http://www.marylandtheseventhstate.com/article1010.html About Famous People - http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1019.html Maryland Archives - http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/4873/html/216prog.html Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tench_Tilghman Mattthew Thornton - http://www.colonialhall.com/thornton/thornton.php http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/thornton.htm http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/new-hampshire-patriot-matthew-thornton-dies http://www.londonderrynh.net/?p=23265 From SeacoastNH - http://www.seacoastnh.com/framers/thornton.html Baron von Steuben - http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/steuben.html Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben NPS - http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/revwar/image_gal/indeimg/steuben.html AmRev - http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/VONSTUB.HTM William Whipple - http://www.colonialhall.com/whipple/whipple.php http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/whipple.htm http://www.whipple.org/william/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whipple http://www.seacoastnh.com/framers/whipple.html http://www.seacoastnh.com/Famous_People/Framers_of_Freedom/William_Whipple/ Classroom Activities: Activities for the Revolution War from 42explore http://www.42explore2.com/revolt.htm American Revolution Webquest http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/KSD/DE/research/revolution/index.html Benjamin Franklin scavenger hunt - http://web.archive.org/web/20041123030511/http://people2.clarityconnect.com/webpages4/kcarsons/oconunit/instruct.htm The British Are Coming! Thinkquest activity http://library.thinkquest.org/10966/data/quiz.shtml Causes of the American Revolution - http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/revwar1/ Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution - Patriots - http://www.connecticutsar.org/patriots/index.htm Drums Along the Mohawk - The American Revolution on the New York frontier http://www.nyhistory.net/~drums/ EDSITEment - http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_lesson.asp?subcategory=22&grade=6-8+ http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=390 http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=392 http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=394 http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=398 http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=282 http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=411 Events Leading to Revolution - PBS Chronicle of the Revolution - http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/ Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Constitution http://www.colonialhall.com/biography.php Fun Games on the Revolutionary War - match the cards, follow Paul Revere, and word searches http://library.thinkquest.org/10966/fun.shtml Join the Revolution from Education World http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson175.shtml Revolutionary War Scavenger Hunt - http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_revolution_hunt.shtml Lesson Plans from Mr. Donn - http://americanhistory.mrdonn.org/revolution.html Lesson Plans - http://www.ushistorysite.com/revolutionary_war.php http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/therevolutionarywar/ http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/monsonunits/JenGri/index.htm http://www.historycentral.com/revolt/links/Educatorsrevolt.html http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/revolution-images/ Lots of other sites about the Revolutionary War - from Keene, NH - http://www.deweybrowse.org/American_Revolution.html My Brother Sam is Dead Lesson Plan - http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAArtSSMDAmericanRevolutionPropagandaCreativeWritingProject68.htm Paul Revere's Ride by Longfellow - poem - http://poetry.eserver.org/paul-revere.html Lesson plan - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/17/g35/landsea.html Revolutionary War Activities - http://www.coollessons.org/revolutionarywarwebquest.htm http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/mmoran/computerclasslinks/revwar.htm Revolutionary War classroom activities - from Carol Hurst http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/ushistory/revolution.html Revolutionary War Internet Scavenger Hunt http://lasd.k12.pa.us/teachers/purnellj/RWHunt.html Another Scavenger Hunt - http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/revolutionary_war_hunt.htm Revolutionary War Lesson Plans - scroll down the page http://www.proteacher.com/090022.shtml Revolutionary War maps from American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html Revolutionary War Words WebQuest - spies http://staff.msad71.net/revol_war/revolwar_webquest5.html Revolutionary War Web Quest from Elise Mueller - http://portablec.wikispaces.com/Revolutionary+War+Project ABCs of the Revolutionary War - Webquest http://www.bushnell-pc.k12.il.us/elem/revwarwebquest.htm American Revolutionary War Spy Webquest http://staff.rsu21.net/revol_war/revolwar_webquest5.html Music from http://www.contemplator.com/america/** Move on to our Making A New Government, Social Studies for Kids, or Mrs. Mitchell's Virtual School This page was developed by Kathi Mitchell and was last updated on November 19, 2010