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| The Second Continental Congress |
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| The Continental Congress that convened in May 1775, approved the Declaration of Independence, and served as the only agency of national government during the Revolutionary War |
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| An army formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War |
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| The dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775–1783, and presided over the writing of the Constitution in 1787 |
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| The Olive Branch Petition |
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| A document sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III, proposing a reconciliation between the colonies and Britain |
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| King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of these two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. |
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| One of the great fiery voices of the American Revolution; emigrated from England to Philadelphia in 1774; two years later he published Common Sense, a popular pamphlet that argued for complete American independence from Britain. |
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| A pamphlet by Tomas Paine, published in 1776, that called for separation of the colonies from Britain |
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| An American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States |
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| The principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States |
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| One of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. |
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| The Declaration of Independence |
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| Document, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies’ independence from Britain |
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| Widely known as the Father of Liberalism, an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. |
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| The Battle of Bunker Hill |
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| War: American Revolution; Date: 17th June 1775; Place: On the Charlestown Peninsula on the North side of Boston Harbour; Combatants: British troops of the Boston garrison against troops of the American Continental Army; Generals: Major General Howe against General Artemas Ward and General Israel Putnam |
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| War: American Revolution; Date: 25th December 1776; Place: Trenton, New Jersey on the Delaware River; Combatants: Americans against Hessians and British troops; Generals: General George Washington against Colonel |
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| The Battle of Ft. Ticonderoga |
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| French and Indian War also known as the Seven Year War. Took place at the southern tip of Lake Champlain in the United States, on the borders of northern New York State and Vermont. |
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| War: American Revolutionary War; Date: 17th October 1777; Place: Saratoga on the Hudson River in New York State; Combatants: British and German troops against the Americans; Generals: Major General John Burgoyne commanded the British and German force. Major General Horatio Gates and Brigadier Benedict Arnold commanded the American army. |
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| War: American Revolutionary War; Date: 28th September to 19th October 1781; Place: Virginia, United States of America; Combatants: Americans and French against the British |
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| A defensive alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War |
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| The Treaty of Paris of 1783 |
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| The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of the US and setting the boundaries of the new nation |
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