Library of Congress
Loc: Religion & the American Revolution
This essay discusses how religion influenced people in regards to fighting the British during the American Revolution. There are several primary sources to examine in this site.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Divining America: Religion and the American Revolution
The National Humanities Center offers an article on religion and the Revolutionary War with suggestions for projects. It is full of information about how religion influenced people to support war.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Us History: The Revolutionary Era
AP U.S. History course unit on the Revolutionary Era, including the road to war and major political changes brought about. Comprehensive multi-media module.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: American Revolution as Civil War
A lesson where students examine the journal of a young Scottish woman, Janet Schaw, visiting North Carolina in 1775. She writes of her experiences observing the tensions and rivalries in the Cape Fear River area that pitted neighbors...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Causes of American Revolution: Soldiers and Civilians at War
For this lesson, 5th graders look at causes and consequences of the American Revolution, at nations and individuals that impacted the outcome, at the roles women played, and at how the war affected families, economics, and the...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Defying British Rule
In this lesson, students will recognize how women served an important role during the American Revolution.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: American Revolution: Patriotism/quaker Loyalism in a Pennsylvania Family
National Humanities Center provides an essay based on the correspondence of a Quaker Family in colonial Pennsylvania.
University of Notre Dame
Colonial Fiscal Documents
Although this site talks about Massachusetts Treasury Certificates, it gives the student a good explanation of wartime inflation during and after the Revolutionary War.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Loyalists, Fence Sitters, and Patriots
Read about the war of propaganda the Patriots needed to wage in order to persuade the vast majority of Americans, who were at first ambivalent to the cause of independence, to support the ideals of the Revolutionary War.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Read about the rhetorical touches Thomas Paine employed in his pamphlet, Common Sense, which galvanized colonial thought about actually breaking away from Mother England.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg: Religion and Revolution
This essay discusses colonists who questioned the "Anglican establishment." It then explains how religion was used to convince colonists to support the war.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Revolution on the Home Front
War is not confined to the battlefield. The economic consequences were great for the Americans during the Revolutionary War. Find out about what British occupation meant, and how women stepped up to keep the economy going while the men...
Other
Maryland Women's Hall of Fame: Mary Katherine Goddard
A woman before her time, Mary Katherine Goddard became a printer, newspaper publisher, and postmaster in Baltimore, Maryland. From her press came the first printed copy of the Declaration of Independence. The website gives a brief...
Black Past
Black Past: Fraunces Tavern
An encyclopedia article about the role of the Fraunces Tavern, owned by the black merchant, Samuel Fraunces, before, during, and after the Revolutionary War.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1754 1800: Women in the American Revolution
Women supported the American Revolution by making homespun cloth, working to produce goods and services to help the army, and even serving as spies.
Other
The Role of Camp Followers in the American Revolution
This article, written for re-enactment newsletters, tells of women as camp followers in the American Revolution. There is an extensive bibliography included.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Quiz: Patriots and Loyalists for Kids
History Questions: Patriots and Loyalists Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Source: Patriot Women
Women served the American revolutionary cause as well as men. Use these lesson plans to make young scholars aware of important women during that era using the "discuss and predict" method.