What combination of experience, strategy, and personal characteristics enabled Washington to succeed as a military leader? In this unit, students will read the Continental Congress's resolutions granting powers to General Washington; analyze some of Washington's wartime orders, dispatches, and correspondence in terms of his mission and the characteristics of a good general.

After an overview of the events surrounding Paul Revere's famous ride, this lesson challenges students to think about the reasons for that fame.  Using both elementary and secondhand accounts, students compare the account of Revere's ride in Longfellow's famous poem with actual historical events, in order to answer the question: why does Revere's ride occupy such a prominent place in the American consciousness?

Articles explaining the importance that women played in the American Revolution. This could be read as a class and annotated by students, or as an extension. There are linked at the bottom other related articles about Women in the American Revolution

Learn about the low point in the American Revolution just before the Yorktown Campaign, which triggered the events that allowed the Colonial Army to win the war.