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American Revolution Images

American Revolution History:

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George Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutz image Art Resource, NY

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Paul Revere’s Engraving of the Boston Tea Party:

The Continental Congress:

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Declaration of Independence:

Battles of Lexington and Concord:

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Battle of Bunker Hill:

The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga:

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Battles of Trenton and Princeton:

Battle of Saratoga:

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The Culper Spy Ring:

Treaty of Paris:

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King George III:

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Washington’s Farewell to His Officers:

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Woman hugging husband as he heads off to war:

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A meeting of the Pilgrims and a group of Native Americans shortly after the Plymouth colony was established in Massachusetts in 1620. Most Indians in the area had been wiped out by diseases that were carried by Europeans who had landed in the area in earlier voyages. The Indians helped the Pilgrims survive in the early years by teaching them how to grow corn.

One version of a political cartoon first created by printer Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia around 1760. It became a popular image as trouble with England grew in the 1770s. Its message is a clear warning for the separate colonies to unite for their own protection.

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An illustration showing a mob gathering to protest the Stamp Act of 1765. The sign reads, “England’s Folly is America’s Ruin.” Resistance to the Act was so widespread that few of the tax stamps were actually used, and the law was repealed. But the protests helped spread a sense that the colonists could effectively challenge the power of the British.

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