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Defining Documents in American History: The American Revolution (1754-1805)

Table of Contents

Founding Documents




Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress




The Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress




The Rights of the Colonists




A Summary View of the Rights of British America




Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death




Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms




Common Sense




Declaration of Independence




Articles of Confederation




Constitution of New York




Constitution of Massachusetts




A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America




Constitution of the United States




George Washington’s First Inaugural Address




The Bill of Rights




Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address




Speeches and Political Tracts




On the Right to Tax America




Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One




Paul Revere’s Engraving of the Boston Massacre




John Hancock’s Boston Massacre Oration




An Address to the People of England, Scotland, and Ireland on the Present Important Crisis of Affairs




Proclamation on Behalf of King George III




The Farmer Refuted




Speech on Conciliation with America




Federalist No. 10




Speech Delivered at the Virginia Convention Debate on the Ratification of the Constitution




Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the Sedition Act




The Dangers of American Liberty




History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution




Supplemental Historical Documents



On American Independence


Brutus No. 1


Report on the Subject of Manufactures


The Revolution in Letters


Letters of Abigail Adams to John Adams


Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies


Account of Shays’s Rebellion


Letter on the Rebellion in Springfield


Letters on Independence


Letter from George Washington to Martha Washington, June 18, 1775


Letter to the Committee of Merchants in London


Letter on the Virginia Constitution


Letters from an American Farmer


From the Commissioners for Negotiating a Peace with Great Britain


Letters of a Countryman


New York Legislature Committee of Correspondence to George Washington


Supplemental Historical Documents



Peter Brown’s Letter to His Mother, Following the Battle of Bunker Hill


Letter from Oliver Wolcott to Roger Newberry


Letters Concerning the Revolution


George Washington’s Letter to Bushrod Washington


The Boisterous Sea of Liberty


Political Sermons




The Curse of Cowardice




A Sermon Preached to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in Boston




On the Right to Rebel against Governors




A Discourse on the Love of Our Country




The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men




The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor




A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of Washington




Supplemental Historical Documents



A Sermon on the Day of the Commencement of the Constitution


An Oration in Commemoration of the Anniversary of American Independence


Voice of Formation and Dissent


A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experience of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman


Liberty Further Extended


New York Mechanics Declaration of Independence


The Gleaner Contemplates the Future Prospects of Women in this “Enlightened Age”


An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York


Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic


Letters on Education with Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects


On the Education of Youth in America


An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania, viz., the Court of the Press


Of Man, as a Member of Society, Lectures on Law


A Letter to Thomas Jefferson


A Charge Delivered to the Brethren of the African Lodge


Supplemental Historical Documents



Cato’s Letter and Petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly


American Indian Narratives


Beloved Brethren


Joseph Brant to Lord George Germain


We Can Retreat No Farther


Supplemental Historical Documents



Speech of Senghnagenrat, an Oneida Chief


Speech of the United Indian Nations, at Their Confederate Council, Held Near the Mouth of the Detroit River


Letter to President Washington (Seneca Chiefs Big Tree, Cornplanter, Half-Town)


African Slave Narratives


The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African


A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa


Supplemental Historical Documents



Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave


Chronological List




Historical Timeline




Web Resources




Bibliography




Index