American Revolution Primary Sources / Marsh, Carole

ISBN13: 
9780635116239
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973.3

American Revolution Primary Sources

2013
The American Revolution Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history of American Revolution. The 20 American Revolution Primary Sources are: 1. Political cartoon first created in 1754 during the French and Indian War, later used as a symbol of the American Revolution 2. Engraving of King George III - 1762 3. Political cartoon depicting a mock funeral for the Stamp Act, after it was repealed - 1766 4. Engraving depicting the Boston Massacre - 1770 5. Various first-hand accounts of the Boston Massacre - 1770 6. Lithograph (1846) of The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor - December 1773 7. Political cartoon entitled, "Bostonians Paying the Excise Man" - October 1774 8. Depictions of Paul Revere's Ride in 1775 9. Map of the town and harbor of Boston and the surrounding area, showing the road to Concord and the various encampments of British and colonial troops - 1775 10. Illustration (1876) depicting Patrick Henry delivering his famous speech to the Virginia Assembly - 1775 11. John Trumbull's painting (1818) of the committee presenting its draft of the Declaration of Independence at the Second Continental Congress - July 1776 12. Engraving showing the destruction of the statue of King George III in New York City - July 9, 1776 13. The first official broadside of the Declaration of Independence that included the names of the signers - 1777 14. Political cartoon entitled, "Poor Old England endeavoring to reclaim his wicked American children" - April 1777 15. Painting of British troops leaving Saratoga, New York, after defeat by U.S. General Horatio Gates - October 1777 16. Depictions of life during the winter at Valley Forge - 1777 17. British political cartoon during the American Revolution - 1779 18. Recollections of an enslaved African American in the Revolutionary Army - 1777-1783 19. Depictions of heroines of the American Revolution - 1777-1783 20. The surrender of British General Cornwallis to the joint efforts of George Washington and the French navy - 1781.
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