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Letter written by Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams, requesting he "remember the ladies" when creating the new form of government.

Painting

Engraving of St. Nicholas with Dutch verse and its English translation

First armed vessel in the service of the United States. Owned by John Glover of Massachusetts, she entered service in September of 1775 at the request of George Washington, who commissioned Nicholas Broughton to command her.

The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773. Bostonians dressed as Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of tea overboard from three British ships in protest against taxation without representation. The Tea Party took place at Griffin's Wharf, where the…

Children acting as messengers and musicians during the war.

Prayer at the continental congress .

A tax collector is tarred and feathered by anti-tax frontiersmen during the Whiskey Rebellion. Violent Protesters take action against a tax collector to rebel again the new excise tax.

This is a drawing of Congress fighting over the Alien and Sedition Acts