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Benjamin Franklin spent the Revolution helping to break up the British Empire, while his son William, the royal governor of New Jersey, sat in a Patriot jail for staying loyal to it. Families all over America split the same way, because the question in front of them was genuinely hard: when does loyalty to a lawful government give way to a right to govern yourselves? The colonists answered it with a few lines about equality and consent that people have quoted ever since, often against the very men who wrote them.

Here you will follow a dispute over stamps and tea as it hardened into war, hear Patriots, Loyalists and British ministers argue their cases, and watch French and Spanish fleets, Native nations and thousands of escaping slaves shape an outcome no one planned. You will come away able to read the Declaration as its first critics did, explain why a weak league of states turned into a constitution with a bill of rights, and recognize the Revolution's language when it turns up in Paris, Port-au-Prince or Hanoi.

Levels

  1. 1 1. Colonial Society and the Empire 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. From Protest to Rebellion, 1764 to 1775 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. The Ideas Behind the Revolution 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. The Declaration of Independence 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. The War and Its Global Side 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. Loyalists, Women and the Home Front 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. Slavery and the Revolution's Contradictions 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. From Confederation to Constitution, and Beyond 5-question quiz

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