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Students at the Notre Dame School, New York, N.Y.
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Recommended Document:
"I
hope you will not consider yourself as commander in chief
of your own house,"
Lucy Knox to her husband General Henry Knox, August 23,
1777
Related Documents:
The Proclamation of 1763
The
Proclamation of 1763, by George III
The Stamp Act Crisis
There
is a violent spirit of opposition raised on the continent,
by Archibald Hinschelwood, August 19, 1765
There
is not gold or silver enough in the colonies to pay the
stamp duty, by Benjamin Franklin, 1766
The Townshend Acts
Taxes...are
imposed upon the People, without their consent, by
John Hancock and four other Boston selectmen, September
14, 1768
The
governors of too many of ye colonies are not only unprincipled,
but...rapacious, James Otis to Catharine Macaulay,
July 27, 1768
The
army...is now publicly declared to be for the purpose
of enforcing obedience to the authority of Parliament,
Charles Thomson to Benjamin Franklin, November 26, 1769
The Boston Massacre
What
are all the Riches...of Life, by Brutus, May 16, 1770
I
trust we have Virtue & Resolution, John Dickinson
to Catharine Macaulay, October 31, 1770
My
Enemies were forced to content themselves with abusing
me, Benjamin Franklin to his sister Jane Mecom, December
30, 1770
The Regulators
Lawyers,
bad everywhere, but in Carolina worse than bad, by
Richard Henry Lee, June 19, 1771
The
Wretch who betrays his country, Samuel Adams to Colonel
James Warren, July 16, 1772
A
System of Tyranny gaining ground upon us every day,
John Adams to Catharine Macaulay, April 19, 1773
The Boston Tea Party
Nothing
but equal Liberty...can secure the attachment of the Colonies
to Britain, by John Adams, December 11, 1773
There
arrived from England 450 chests of tea, John Easson
to David Easson, December 18, 1773
Each
colony...as parts of the same Body, by George Read,
May 26, 1774
Fifty
thousand men well armed...on the march to Boston,
by Caesar Rodney, September 17, 1774
Ruinous
system of colonial administration, The Association,
agreed upon by the Grand American Continental Congress,
October 20, 1774
We...lay
our grievances before the throne, Petition from the
General Congress in America to the King, October 26, 1774
When
a Nation...turns advocate for slavery and Oppression,
Letter from the General Congress at Philadelphia, September
5, 1774
Resistance to Britain
It
will produce Resistance...and a Flame through all America,
John Adams to Catharine Macaulay, December 28, 1774
We
consider ourselves as laying the foundation of a glorious
future Empire, by Ezra Stiles to Catharine Macaulay,
April 15, 1775
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
Troops...marched
to Lexington, Isaac Merrill, April 19, 1775
To
excite and justify devastation and massacre, Thomas
Gage, June 12, 1775
All
Europe is interested in the fate of America, Mercy
Otis Warren to Catharine Macaulay, August 24, 1775
Common
Sense, by Thomas Paine, 1776
Designing
a plan of government, by John Adams, November 15,
1775
Necessity calls
for Independence, by Richard H. Lee to Landon Carter,
June 2, 1776
Our
affairs are hastening fast to a Crisis, John Hancock,
June 4, 1776
An
African American veteran, by Peter Kiteridge, April
6, 1806
Just
right to liberty, Society of Friends, September 23-28,
1776
An
economist criticizes the British colonial system,
by Adam Smith, 1776
Our
cause is the cause of God, John Jay, December 23,
1776
Their
design...is to spread smallpox thro the country, Josiah
Bartlett to William Whipple, April 21, 1777
It
would be next to impossible for Britain to succeed,
by George Washington to the President of Congress, December
14-15, 1777
We
had...not less than 2898 men unfit for duty, by George
Washington to the State of New Hampshire, December 29,
1777
The
benevolent overtures of Great-Britain, by Henry Clinton,
October 3, 1778
Benedict Arnold's Treason
The
story...is indeed shocking, by Edmund Pendleton, October
17, 1780
The War in the South
The
loud roaring of our approaching Enemy, Henry Laurens,
February 14, 1780
A
considerable Fleet of the Enemy has arrived within our
Capes, by Thomas Jefferson, October 22, 1780
Measures
for suppress the...Rebellion, by Charles Cornwallis,
February 20, 1781
Our
affairs have been...growing from bad to worse, by
George Mason to George Mason, Jr., June 3, 1781
We
are told that the enemy...fleet will soon drive off the
French, Edmund Pendleton, September 10, 1781
The
design of the enemy, Edmund Pendleton
The Articles of Confederation
Twas
high time the confederation was completed, Edmund
Pendleton, September 25, 1780
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