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North Park Univ.: The Revolutionary War Era 1763-1
Yorktown. 1783: Treaty of Peace is signed. 1785: Land Ordinance of 1785. 1787: Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. James Madison develops principles for the US Constitution Northwest Ordinance. Shay's Rebellion. Resources Primary Sources Secondary Sources
Gunning Bedford, Jr.
first to Dover, then to Wilmington, and much later to a farm on the Brandywine. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1783 – 1785, and served as Delaware's attorney general from 1784 to 1789. He was a delegate to the Annapolis Convention in 1786, but did not attend the m...
George Washington
election to the Virginia House of Burgesses. In 1774 he participated in the First Continental Congress and took command of the Virginia militia; next year the Second Congress made him commander in chief of the Continental army. Washington led the American forces skillfully through the Revolution...
Simon Bolivar
Bolivar Simon Bolivar 1783 - 1830 General Bolivar, called El Libertador, was the greatest military figure of the independence struggle of Latin America against Spain. Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela. As a young man he traveled in Europe, and while in Rome he made a vow to libera...
America's Library: Jump Back in Time - Revolutionary Period: Where Is Everybody?
When did the Revolutionary War officially come to an end? On September 3, 1783, more than a year after the last shots were fired, a peace treaty was drawn up in Paris. Under the terms of the treaty, the United States was granted territory as far west as the Mississippi River.After the Treaty...
The British Partizan: A Tale of the Olden Time. By a Lady of South Carolina
Moragne Davis, b. 1815 The British Partizan: A Tale of the Olden Time. By a Lady of South Carolina. Macon, Ga.: Burke, Boykin & Company, 1864. Full Text (157 p., ca. 265K) HTML file XML/TEI source file Illustrations Title Page Title Page Verso List of Illustrations Subjects Southern...
Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment
Alamance County (N.C.) -- Fiction. North Carolina -- Fiction. North Carolina -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction. Teachers -- North Carolina -- Alamance County -- Fiction. Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title...
Poetry Out Loud: Smith, Charlotte
Charlotte Smith 1749–1806 Charlotte Smith wrote Elegiac Sonnets in 1783 while she was in debtor’s prison with her husband and children. William Wordsworth identified her as an important influence on the Romantic movement. She published several longer works that celebrated the i...
Where did the pioneers travel to?
Mountains by the 1760s. Map #2 shows that settlement had reached as far as the Mississippi River by 1783. Map #3 shows that during the early 1800s pioneers began claiming fertile areas of land beyond the Mississippi River. Map #4 shows that during the mid-1800s Americans started sett...
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: 1782
Almanacs Dictionary Encyclopedia FunBrain Poems and Songs of Robert Burnsby Robert Burns 1781 1783 1782 Contents Fickle Fortune: A Fragment Raging Fortune—Fragment Of Song Impromptu—"I'll Go And Be A Sodger" Song—"No Churchman Am I" My Father W...
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