Revolutionary Comics

 Below are comic books set in historical time periods that take place during revolutions or are events leading up to revolutions.  

Students could put their comics in the following time periods:

* The Agricultural Revolution (1000 AD - 1300 AD)
*  The Black Plague
*  Peasant Revolt of 1358 
*  Peasant Revolt of 1348
*  Peasant Revolt of 1381
*  Protestant Reformation (1517)
*  The Events Leading up to the American Revolution (King Phillip's War, the Salem Witch Trials, the French & Indian War)
*  The American Revolution (1776)

Enjoy reading these Revolutionary Comics!  






























































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