To offset the debt, Parliament introduced a succession ... ultimately paving the way for revolution. Image By Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History / Bridgeman Images The Continental ...

If Parliament was going to make these kinds ... "The shot heard 'round the world" launched the American Revolution. The Redcoats were able to push their way through the militia and march on ...

As with most major events in history, the start of the American Revolution can be traced back ... This was mostly successful, with Parliament repealing the Stamp Act. However, a warning to the ...

But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago ... the mother country and her Massachusetts colony were beyond estranged. Parliament had imposed onerous taxes without representation ...

The lower prices would make it easier for American colonists to stomach a tax, because who cares about a British tax if the final cost is lower? Parliament didn't count on American colonists ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced ...

Wood, a professor of history emeritus at Brown University, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his book “The Radicalism of the American Revolution ... the Authority of Parliament over the ...