Rev War | Primary Source Sugar Act The Sugar Act served as a revenue raising act, passed by Great Britain to tax sugar and other goods to pay for the Seven Years War.
Rev War | Primary Source Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Patrick Henry’s moving speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Rev War | Primary Source Quartering Act of 1774 The Quartering Act of 1774 allowed British troops to be housed in private homes and facilities.
Rev War | Primary Source Tea Act Great Britain granted the British East India Company a monopoly on tea sold in the Colonies.
Rev War | Primary Source Townshend Act With the Townshend Act, new duties were placed on imports of glass, lead, paper, tea to the Colonies from Great Britain.
Rev War | Primary Source The Articles of Association The First Continental Congress implemented a trade boycott with Great Britain
Rev War | Primary Source The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress Grievances and conclusions drawn by this 1765 Congress in response to the Stamp Act.
Rev War | Primary Source Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown The following document is the negotiated terms of surrender at Yorktown, Virginia between General Charles Lord Cornwallis and General George...
Rev War | Primary Source George Washington to Martha Washington A rare piece of history, this is one of only two letters between George and Martha Washington. This letter was discovered in the desk drawer of one of...
Rev War | Primary Source Benjamin Thompson to an Unknown Recipient Benjamin Thompson to an unknown recipient (May 6, 1775) an invisible letter written in a visable one.
Rev War | Primary Source Circular Letter to the Governors in America In response to Samuel Adams' Massachusetts Circular Letter in early 1768 that asked other colonies to join in resisting Parliament's Townshend Act...
Rev War | Primary Source Dedication Speech Delivered by Warren G. Harding for the the Princeton Battle Monument The Dedication speech for the Princeton Battle Monument was delivered by President Warren G. Harding’s on June 9, 1922, in honor of the Battle of...