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Contents
- Introduction
- Questions to Guide Your Reading
- Part I. The Virginia Settlement
- 1. Starving Time 1606-1610
- 2. An Indentured Servant’s Letter Home April 3, 1623
- 3. Bacon’s Manifesto 1676
- Part II. The Puritans of New England
- 4. Early Education Laws 1642-1647
- 5. Limits of Toleration 1647
- 6. Prologue to “The Tenth Muse” 1650
- 7. Connecticut’s “Blue Laws” 1672
- 8. Records of the Trial and Execution of Sarah Good 1692
- 9. Two Letters of Gov. William Phips 1692-1693
- Part III. The Old Colonial System
- 10. Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England May 19, 1643
- 11. The Navigation Act of 1660 1660
- 12. Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England April 7, 1688
- 13. Boston Revolt of 1689 April-August 1689
- 14. Bars Fight 1746
- 15. Albany Plan of Union 1754
- 16. The Way to Wealth July 7, 1757
- Part IV. The Revolution
- 17. Second Treatise of Government 1688
- 18. Chart of Battles, Leaders, and Congresses During the Revolutionary War
- 19. Petition from the Massachusetts House of Representatives to the House of Commons (in response to the Sugar Act) November 3, 1764
- 20. Patrick Henry’s Resolutions Against the Stamp Act 29-30 May, 1765
- 21. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, To the Inhabitants of the British Colonies 1767-1768
- 22. After the Boston Tea Party: Cartoons June and November 1774
- 23. Continental Congress’s Declaration of Rights and Grievances against Great Britain October 14, 1774
- 24. Articles of Association October 20, 1774
- 25. The Alternative of Williamsburg February 16, 1775
- 26. Petition of the New York Assembly to George III March 25, 1775
- 27. Address from Joseph Warren April 36, 1775
- 28. The Charlotte Town Resolves May 31, 1775
- 29. The Olive Branch Petition July 8, 1775
- 30. His Excellency General Washington October 26, 1775
- 31. Oath of Allegiance to the King George III November 1775
- 32. Letter from George Washington to John Hancock December 4, 1775
- 33. Common Sense 1776
- 34. Resolve of the Continental Congress Regarding State Governments May 15, 1776
- 35. Richard Henry Lee Resolution for Independence June 7, 1776
- 36. Appointment of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams to Draft the Declaration of Independence June 11, 1776
- 37. Adoption of the Lee Resolution July 2, 1776
- 38. The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America July 4, 1776
- 39. The American Crisis December 23, 1776
- 40. Draft Notice August 14, 1777
- 41. Treaty of Alliance with France February 6, 1778
- 42. Address of the Congress to the Inhabitants of the United States of America May 9, 1778
- 43. Establishment of the American Army May 1778
- 44. Marquis de Lafayette’s Oath of Allegiance June 9, 1778
- 45. Letter of John Adams to the President of Congress December 6, 1778
- 46. Details from a Providence (RI) Town Meeting About Quartering of Troops July 3, 1779
- 47. Letter from Elizabeth Burgin to Reverend James Calville November 19, 1779
- 48. Letter from General George Washington to Congress Announcing the Victory at Yorktown, Virginia October 19, 1781
- 49. Benjamin Franklin’s Draft of Preliminary Articles of Peace 1782
- 50. Treaty of Paris September 3, 1783
- 51. Minutes of a Conference between George Washington and Guy Carleton May 6, 1783
- 52. Letter from Joseph Warren to Benjamin Franklin April 26, 1775
- 53. Articles of Confederation 1781
- 54. Northwest Ordinance July 13, 1787
- 55. Thomas Walke’s Account of Capturing his Runaway Slaves in New York City May 3, 1783
- 56. General Washington’s Instructions to Commissioners of Embarkation April-May, 1783
- 57. Letter from Embarkation Commissioners to General Washington June 14, 1783
- 58. An Address to the Negroes In the State of New-York 1787
- 59. Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery 1797
- 60. Testimony of Deborah Sampson Gannett September 14, 1818
- Appendix 1: More Readings