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13. When Does the Revolution End?

The Declaration's legacy, the war as soldiers and civilians lived it, the loyalists who left, and the limits of what the Revolution reached.

13. When Does the Revolution End?

This scene, from the frieze in the rotunda of the U.S. capitol building, depicts British Major Pitcairn on a horse, backed by British soldiers at the Battle of…

13a. The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume…

13b. The War Experience: Soldiers, Officers, and Civilians

Before they could fight for independence, harsh winters during the Revolutionary War forced the Continental Army to fight for their very survival. Americans re…

13c. The Loyalists

Thomas Hutchinson, a Supreme Court justice in Massachusetts, was the most hated man in America before Benedict Arnold, and was hung in effigy many times for be…

13d. Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Slavery

Born into slavery in 1760, Richard Allen purchased his own freedom for $2000 at the age of 20. He became a devoted Methodist preacher and founded the Mother Be…

13e. Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Women

Playwright, essayist and poet, Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) is considered one of the first public champions of women's rights in the U.S. The Revolutionar…

13f. Revolutionary Limits: Native Americans

Mohawk Indian Thayendanega, also known as Joseph Brant, served in the British army as an interpreter of native languages during the Revolutionary War. While th…

13g. Revolutionary Achievement: Yeomen and Artisans

In his painting The Residence of David Twining, (1787) Edward Hicks portrays the farm of a prosperous Pennsylvania politician. While most yeomen did not have f…

13h. The Age of Atlantic Revolutions

This illustration from 1783 appeared in a history of Britain with the caption, "The Manner in which the American Colonies Declared Themselves Independent of th…