Historical Document Collection
Growing Tensions with the Mother Country
Albany Plan of Union
Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress
Pitt's response to the Stamp Act
Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre (American point-of-view)
Thomas Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre (British point-of-view)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
America Goes to War
Declaration of Independence
Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
The Charlotte Town Resolves
Resolution of the First Continental Congress
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
Paris Peace Treaty
A Nation is Born
Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
George Washington's Farewell Address
Annapolis Convention
The Federalist Papers
