The American Revolution

Imagine you are a COLONIST living in one of Britain's thirteen American colonies in the early 1770s. Your daily life is shaped by British RULE — laws made across the Atlantic Ocean by people who have never set foot on your land. The colonies stretch along the eastern coast of North America, from New Hampshire in the north down to Georgia in the south. You grow crops, run a shop, or work a trade, but more and more, you are feeling the weight of a government that treats you as a subject rather than a CITIZEN. A powerful idea is beginning to stir among your neighbors: that people have the right to govern themselves. This idea of SELF-GOVERNANCE will become the heartbeat of a revolution.