How was Phillis Wheatley different from most of her fellow African Americans at the time of the American Revolution?

Why did the concept of marriage as partnership apply to so many families in the late seventeenth century?

How did Patrick Henry and the Virginia House of Burgesses contribute to the growing rancor of the colonists in the wake of passage of the Stamp Act?

Why did the Continental Congress meet in 1774 in Philadelphia?

By 1779 what problem plagued the Continental Army?

What did Baron Friedrich von Steuben, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Thaddeus Kosciusko all have in common?

What percentage of women in the British colonies married at the beginning of the eighteenth century?

The Sugar Act and the Currency Act resulted in the colonists’ paying more money to the British treasury even as

What did the Sugar Act, Currency Act, and Quartering Act all have in common?

What was a significant result of the new royal charter granted in 1731 to New York City?