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Explores the political, economic, and cultural conflicts that led the United States into the Civil War, and includes photographs, maps, and illustrations, as well as sidebars that profile significant people and events.

Examines the reasons why the American colonists rebelled against the British, discussing taxes, the invasion of Boston, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and other events.

The statue of King George III, erected in Battery Park after the repeal of the Stamp Tax, tells his version of the events leading to the American Revolution.

Text and illustrations look at the Boston Tea Party of 1773.

Chronicles the story of the American Revolution and examines British oppression of the colonists, the Boston Tea Party and Boston Massacre, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The story leading up to the Boston Tea Party gets at the root of the story as this prelude to the Revolutionary War unfolds.

Describes the events surrounding the bloody confrontation between Union and Confederate troops in the Maryland countryside on September 17, 1862.

Describes the events preceding, during, and following this noted event, which helped precipitate the American Revolutionary War.

Provides an account of the Confederacy's attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor in April 1861, which marked the beginning of the American Civil War.

Presents an examination of the causes of the American Revolutionary War, including information on the colonists growing desire for self-government, the increasing restrictions the British placed on new settlements, and the escalating tensions between Britain and the colonists.