Person1738 – 1820

George III

King of Great Britain (r. 1760–1820), in whose reign the thirteen American colonies won independence

Where they went

1
1765 – 1766Stamp Actmonarch
To pay the debts of the Seven Years’ War, Parliament required stamps on colonial newspapers, legal papers and even playing cards; the colonists resisted with the cry “No taxation without representation.”
2
1783Treaty of Paris (1783)monarch
Britain recognised American independence and ceded the lands east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes.

Samuel Adams1722 – 1803
Boston politician and leader of the Sons of Liberty against British taxation; a leader of the American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin1706 – 1790
Philadelphia printer, scientist and diplomat who signed the Declaration and the Constitution and won the French alliance in Paris
John Adams1735 – 1826
Massachusetts lawyer and statesman who championed independence in Congress, negotiated the Treaty of Paris and became the second US president (1797–1801)

The American Revolution1765 – 1789
From the Stamp Act to Washington’s inauguration — thirteen colonies that cried “No taxation without representation” fought Britain for eight years, won their independence and framed a new republic under the Constitution