Navigation Acts | Summary, Effects, Facts
Learn about the Navigation Acts and how they affected the American Revolution. Read a summary of the acts and learn about their effects.
Learn about the different political power plays, alliances, and spying scandals that occurred during the American Revolution.
Learn about the Navigation Acts and how they affected the American Revolution. Read a summary of the acts and learn about their effects.
Learn about the Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts passed by British parliament in 1774 on the Thirteen Colonies.
Read a simple, easy to understand explanation of the Tea Act of 1773, written for kids. Includes a summary and effects of the Act.
Learn about the Tea Act of 1773. Discover the purpose of this law, and the effects it had. Plus, learn how colonists responded to the Tea Act.
Learn about the Townshend Acts of 1767-68. Read a summary of what the acts did as well as fun facts, and discover how the colonists reacted.
Learn about the Quartering Acts of 1765 and 1774. Read a summary of the acts and key facts, and learn how the colonists reacted to the Quartering Acts.
Learn about the Sugar Act of 1764. Discover how this law affected the Thirteen Colonies, and how people reacted to it.
Learn about the Stamp Act of 1765. Discover how this new tax worked, and how the colonists reacted to it.
Learn about the Declaratory Act of 1766. Discover why the British implemented this act, and how people reacted to it in the Thirteen Colonies.
Learn about the Patriot slogan "No taxation without representation", including what this slogan means, who said it, and where it comes from.
Learn about the different types of propaganda used by both sides during the Revolutionary War.
View 9 examples of political cartoons published during the American Revolution. Learn about Patriot and Loyalist perspectives of the conflict.
Read this letter written by Luis de Unzaga, the Spanish governor of Louisiana, promsing to provide aid to the Continental forces in late 1776.
Learn about the role Spain played in the Revolution. Discover how Britain's conquest of Spanish territory led to their support for American Patriots.