1. Choose a historical figure or group from the Revolutionary War era (e.g., British officials, American colonists, enslaved people, Native Americans, merchants, etc.)
2. Research their perspective on the events leading to the American Revolution
3. Create a post sharing their viewpoint on key events like the Boston Tea Party, Stamp Act, Boston Massacre, etc.
4. Include a video, audio recording, or drawing to enhance your perspective
5. Write from their point of view using “I” or “we” statements

• Consider how different groups experienced the same events differently
• Think about their motivations, fears, and hopes
• Use specific examples and historical evidence

Image credits:

Charles-Auguste Couder, Louis. "Siege of Yorktown". 1836, Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia.

Source credits:

“France and the American Revolution - Museum of the American Revolution.” Museum of the American Revolution, www.amrevmuseum.org/france-and-the-american-revolution. Accessed 15 Aug. 2025.

Stamp Act: The Stamp Act imposed a tax without seeking approval of the legislature. I greatly believed that the Stamp Act enacted was a complete violation of there rights, which I believed was very unconstitutional. In return, I wrote a series of essays, condemning the Act, using the idea of "no taxation without representation" a supporting claim.

Boston Massacre: John Adams had an indifferent, complex viewpoint on the Boston Massacre. Adams Believed that while justice and the rule of law needs to be used, the officers still should be able to be able to have a fair trial for their actions

Dear General Vaughan,

I write to you with growing concern over the growing anger in the colonies. What once felt like scattered discontent now feels like a movement, angry and growing, united against the Crown.

The Boston Massacre still takes a heavy toll on us. Our men were provoked, surrounded, and scared. Yet the rebels turned it into propaganda, painting us as butchers. Then came the Tea Party, the savages dressed as Mohawks, dumping East India tea into the harbor. They call it a protest. I call it destruction.

And the Gaspee, burned in broad daylight, its commander shot. No one held accountable. These aren’t isolated acts. They’re signals. The rebels see themselves as patriots. Loyalists feel betrayed. And many colonists are caught in between, unsure who to trust.

I’ve spent years fighting on this soil. I know it's people. They’re proud, stubborn, and now dangerously convinced they can stand alone. We must tread carefully. Force alone won’t win this. We need strategy, patience, and a reminder of what loyalty to the Crown truly means.

Yours in service, Robert Rogers

I was in between my men and the mob, trying to calm them and get them to go home while using all my power peaceably, but they would not listen. They continued to advance upon us and to the points of the bayonets, they struck the barrels and continued to advance to close to the soldiers. My men fired out of fear for their lives, can they really be blamed for this?  We were followed, surrounded, and it seemed we were about to be attacked. Is it not the rights of the soldiers of the king to enforce the peace and protect themselves?  I understand the colonists were mad because of the implementation of taxes and the liberties of them being contested. But they have no rights here, except to do the kings will, it is his land and them who prosper from it, they fake the ideal of freedom when what they really want is to not be monitored and disciplined for their actions of wrong towards the king and his laws, they are foolish people that have no appreciation for the blessings of the king!

It shall be a Boston Tea Party!

Now who here looks good in costumes?

The Boston Massacre: I, Paul Revere, played a huge role in the public view of the Boston Massacre. Most famously, my engraving of the Massacre was created to be seen as a tool to unite and gain support for The American Revolutionary cause. My engraving highlighted British tyranny and Patriot Propaganda.

The Boston Tea Party: I felt very strongly opposed to British taxation without representation and the tax imposed on tea imposed by the Tea Act. As a member of the Sons of Liberty organization,other colonists and I went undercover and disguised ourselves as Mohawk Indians boarding British ships and dumping British tea into the Boston Harbour in 1773. 

The Stamp Act: In August of 1765, The Sons of Liberty and I organized a riot due to the The Stamp Act, known as the Stamp Act Riots. Where we destroyed homes of government officials, including that of Thomas Hutchinson. I was a clear opponent of the Stamp Act, I believed it to be a clear and imminent infringement of rights and liberties of the colonists. 

For example, in March of 1770, a group of fellow colonists burned the British customs ship, The Gaspee, off the coast of Rhode Island. This event led to the already dwindling peace in New England breaking completely. 

In the years following this event, the British have implemented yet another act upon us, this one called the Tea Act of 1773. This act prevents British ships from leaving the ports until all of the tea had been sold or if there was none left on the ship. So what did us colonists do about it? We tossed all the tea into the sea. Together, 50 of us disguised ourselves as Native Americans and snuck onto a British ship in the harbor, and dumped all of the remaining tea overboard. 

The British were incredibly unhappy with our protests, so in retaliation the British Parliament passed the Coercive Acts. This closed the Boston Harbor, limited the power of our Massachusetts assembly, and forced us to quarter more British troops without giving us any pay. I only hope that sometime soon we will be free of this tyranny, as I fear our rights will only continue to slip away if we do not gain independence. These unjust conditions will also most likely continue to be motivators for us as we continue to protest against British control.

Arriving in these lands as a youth, looking to expand opportunities and improve life, the situation found a nation under the hegemony of British rule. The growing disparity between British imperial aspirations and developing desires for colonial liberty were witnessed firsthand. The Stamp Act of 1765, though later repealed, offered Parliament's intention to tax but not represent. The colonists, who were used to governing themselves and their finances, viewed this as an attack on freedoms. The British remembered, or consciously ignored, colonial tribulations. The colonists saw this as an economic hardship as well as a transparent encroachment on freedom. It made it feel to many like they had been unfairly treated and determined to fight back. Early writings, such as "A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress," vehemently stated that Parliament's actions were "subversive of our natural liberty." The deep conviction that liberty was "the greatest of terrestrial blessings," and Americans were "co-heirs of liberty with [the British]" existed as well.

Cites:

William D. Cooper, "the destruction of tea at Boston Harbor", 1799, engraved

Massachusetts Historical Society-– resources in the Sons of Liberty 

https://www.masshist.org/revolution/sons_of_liberty.php

Smithsonian Magazine – “The True Story of the Boston Tea Party”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-boston-tea-party-180959450/

Library of Congress – “The Boston Tea Party”

https://www.loc.gov/item/02002977/