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1733:
Molasses Act (5/17, 28) |
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1735:
Defense of Peter
Zenger - Andrew Hamilton |
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1735:
Transcript of the Trial of Peter Zenger |
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1748:
"The Cry
of Oppression" - Sermon by Nathaniel Appleton |
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1752:
George Washington
Land Survey for Daniel Osborne,
Frederick County, Virginia |
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1754:
Albany Plan of
Union |
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1754:
In Defense of a Plan for Colonial Union by Benjamin
Franklin - arguments in favor of the Albany
Plan of Union |
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1754:
"Join or Die" - political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin in the
Pennsylvania Gazette (5/9) |
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1758:
"The Curse of Cowardice" - a sermon by Samuel Davies |
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1759:
“Born Yet We Are Debarred Englishmen’s Liberty” - A
Massachusetts Soldier Confronts British Society |
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1759: Rules of Rogers' Rangers |
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1759:
Standing Orders for Rogers' Rangers |
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1761:
Against the
Writs of Assistance - James Otis |
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1761:
The
Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and
England - Governor Glen |
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1763:
Journal of Pontiac's Conspiracy |
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1763:
The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved -
James Otis |
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1763:
Royal Proclamation of 1763 |
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1763:
Writ of
Assistance (10/7) |
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1764:
Currency Act |
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1764:
Sugar Act |
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1764:
The Rights
of the British Colonies Asserted and Approved - James Otis |
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1765:
“Another Race of White Men Come Amongst Us” - Native
American Views as British Replace the French in the Lower Mississippi
Valley |
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1765:
The Declaration
of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress |
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1765:
The Governor of Massachusetts Bay issues a Proclamation
against
Rioters |
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1765:
Instructions of the Town of Braintree to Their
Representative |
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1765:
"Join or Die" -
from the masthead of The
(Connecticut) Constituional Courant |
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1765:
The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by
the
Legislature of Great Britain -Soames Jenyns |
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1765:
A Patriotic Advertisement |
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1765:
Quartering Act |
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1765:
Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress |
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1765:
Stamp Act |
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1765:
William Blackstone's Commentaries |
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1765-1785:
Excerpt from the Diary of Christiana Leach, of
Kingsessing |
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1766:
Declaratory Act |
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1766:
Examination of Dr. Benjamin Franklin In the House of Commons |
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1766:
William Pitt's Speech on the Stamp Act |
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1767:
Townsend Act |
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1767-1768:
Letter 2 from John Dickinson's
Letters of a Pennsylvania
Farmer |
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1767-1768:
Letter 4 from John Dickinson's
Letters of a Pennsylvania
Farmer |
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1768:
"The Daughters of Liberty" - anonymous poem |
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1768:
Massachusetts Circular Letter (2/11) |
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1769:
Virginia Non-Importation Resolutions |
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1770:
Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre |
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1770:
"The
Bloody Massacre" - engraving by Paul Revere |
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1770:
"The
Boston Massacre" - Boston Gazette and Country Journal |
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1770:
Captain
Thomas Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre |
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1772:
The Rights of
the Colonists:
The Report of
the Committee of Correspondence
to the Boston Town Meeting - Samuel Adams |
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1772:
Spanish head pistareen coin |
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1772:
“The uncommon increase of Settlements in the back
Country” - Sir William Johnson Watches
the Settlers Invade Indian
Lands |
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1773:
An Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York (12/15) |
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1773:
A Shoemaker and the Tea Party |
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1773:
Tea Act |
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1773:
"Tea Destroyed by Indians" - son lyrics/broadside
image |
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1773:
Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida
[excerpt] - William Bartram |
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1774:
Administration of Justice Act |
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1774:
Boston Port Act |
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1774:
"The Bostonians in Distress" - copy of mezzotint attributed to Philip
Dawe, London |
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1774:
"The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering" - copy
of mezzotint attributed
to Philip Dawe |
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1774:
Declaration
and Resolves of the First Continental Congress |
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1774:
"A genuine letter from a well-known patriot at St. James's to his
friend in Boston, relative to the present distracted state of American
affairs. Dated London", (11/28) - broadside |
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1774:
“Many Hundreds are Sterving for Want of Employment” -
John Harrower Leaves London for Virginia |
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1774:
Massachusetts Government Act |
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1774:
Olive
Branch Petition |
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1774:
Petition of "A Grate Number of Blackes of the Province" to
Governor Thomas Gage and the Members of the Massachusetts
General Court |
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1774:
A Plan for the Union of Great Britain and the Colonies
- Joseph Galloway |
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1774:
"A protest entered into by nine patriotic members of the House of
Lords, against the address of that House to the King, presented on the
3d of December" - broadside |
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1774:
Quartering Act |
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1774:
Quebec Act |
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1774:
A Summary View of the Rights of British America - Thomas
Jefferson |
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1774:
To the free and
loyal inhabitants of the city and colony of New-York... Brutus,
(NY) - broadside |
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1774-1802:
Early
Virginia Religious Petitions |
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1775:
African
Slavery in America - Thomas Paine |
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1775:
The Cause and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (7/6) |
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1775:
The Olive Branch Petition (7/8) |
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1775:
Richard
Furman's Address to the Residents Between the Broad and Saluda River |
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1775:
Royal Proclamation of Rebellion - King George III (9/23) |
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1776:
Letter of
Abigail Adams to John Adams |
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1834:
George Hewes’ Recollection of the Boston Massacre |
