The Zenger Trial was the first victory for The Freedom of the Press. It was a libel suit brought against a printer by the name of John Peter Zenger by the then Governor of New York William Cosby. Alexander Hamilton was Zenger's lawyer he argued that the people themselves were intelligent enough to determine what was real and what was false. The jury acquitted Zenger because they said that all of his information was based on truths not lies. "Common Sense" was an article written by Thomas Paine in 1776. If not for Zenger's Trials "Common Sense" would have received the same treatment as Zenger's New York Weekly Journal had.

The Hanover Kings were a royal bloodline in England. The first one was George I. During the time of the American Revolution George II was fighting with The House Of Burgesses about his right to power. These domestic proble

Saratoga was the turning point in the battle for independence in America. This battle is where General Gates was forced to surrender his troops. His troops were returned under the condition that they would be sent back to England and not fight in the war.

The Battle of Cowpens was fought on January of 1781 on the border of South Carolina. This battle slowed Lord Cornwallis' attack of North Carolina. The Battle of Kings Mountain was in October of 1780, in the south. It was a revolutionist victory over the loyalists in South Carolina; it is seen as the first in a series of losses in the south that signaled the end of the war. Yorktown was the final real battle in the war for American independence. This battle forced General Conrwallis to surrender and ended the fighting. The treaty of Paris was actually a collection of treaties that finished the American War for Independence. Representatives from Great Britain and America signed them on September 3, 1782.

Lord North took office in the 1770's. One of his initial acts as head of the ministry of taxes was the keeping of the taxes on tea, this tax lead to the Boston Tea Party. He was minister during the Revolution and during this time he ended up supporting a war that he at times felt that Britain couldn't win. General Gage was a British General in Massachusetts at the beginning of the revolutionary war. He failed to squash the revolutionary spirit that was infecting the people of Massachusetts. He was also instrumental in the Parliamentary decisions that came directly after the Boston Tea Party, the so called "Intolerable Acts" the

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