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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
American Independence
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American Independence
- WEB Avalon Project: American 18th Century Documents [At
Yale] [Internet Archive backup here]
- WEB American History: From Revolution to Reconstruction for
Documents and Essays [AT RUG] [Internet Archive backup here]
- WEB Founders Online: CORRESPONDENCE AND OTHER WRITINGS OF SEVEN MAJOR SHAPERS OF THE UNITED STATES [National Archives]
- WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy -Pre-1898 [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
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[At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
WEB The Revolutionary
Generation in America [Course at Brooklyn College] [Internet Archive backup here]
- Mid-18th Century Politics
Penn's Plan for a Union,
1697 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Robert Beverley: On
Bacon's Rebellion, 1704 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- The North
Carolina Biennal Act, 1715 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Governor Gabriel Johnston: Request to repeal the Biennal act, 18 October 1736 (translated) [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Disposition
of the North Carolina Biennal Act, 1737 (translated) [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Massachusetts House of Representatives: On the Governor's
Salary, 11 September 1728 (translated) [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Governor Burnet of Massachusetts: On the Governor's
Salary, 17 September 1728 (translated) [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Petition to Parliament: Reasons for making bar, as
well as pig or sow-iron, ca. 1750 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Petition to Parliament: Reason against a general prohibition of the Iron Manufacture in Plantations [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Albany Plan of Union,
1754 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- John Woolman (1720-1772): Journal, full text, [At this
Site]
Journal of an 18th century English Quaker and his travels among Friends in America.
- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813): What Is an
American? [At this Site]
- J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813): Letters From An American
Farmer: Letter 3: What is an American, 1782 [At UVA] [Internet Archive version here]
- J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813): Letters From An American Farmer [At UVA][Full Text] [Internet Archive version here]
- Scottish Immigration to the American Colonies, 1772
[At this Site]
- Early New York
- French and Indian Wars
- Benjamin Franklin
- American Revolution
- Daniel Dulany: Considerations,
October 1765 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Soame Jenyns: The
Objections to the taxation consider'd, 1765 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Resolutions of the Stamp Act,
Oct. 19, 1765 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- William Pitt: Speech
on the Stamp Act, January 14 1766 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- John Dickenson: Letter
2, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- John Dickenson: Letter
4, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Captain Preston: Account of the
Boston Massacre, March 5 1770 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Anonymous: Account
of the Boston Massacre, March 5 1770 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Samuel Adams: The Rights of the
Colonists, 1772 [At Hanover]
- First
Continental Congress, October 1774 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Declaration
and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 1774 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
or here, October 1774 [At
Yale]
- The Charlotte
Town Resolves, 1775 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Daniel Leonard: Letter,
of January 9, 1775 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- John Adams: Novanglus,
February 6, 1775 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Patrick Henry: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, March 23, 1775 [At Yale]
- Mecklenberg Declaration of Independence, May 1775 [At
this Site]
- Yankee Doodle [Was At U Oklahoma, now Internet Archive]
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Second Continental Congress: Declaration of the Causes
and Necessity of Taking up Arms, July 6 1775 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797): On Conciliation with America, March 22, 1775 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Common Sense, full text [At
this Site]
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809): Common Sense, Jan
1776 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Loyalism
- War
- George Washington: Letter to John Hancock, September 24, 1776 [At National Archives] [Internet Archive version here]
- Thomas Jefferson: Draft of the
Declaration of Independence [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Declaration of Independence,
1776 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Locke's Second Treatise/Declaration of
Independence, side by side [At Anesi] [Internet Archive version here]
- Albigence Waldo: From the Diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
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Exchange of Notes Re: Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France, February 6, 1778 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809): The
American Crisis [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ebenezer Denny: From His
diary, 1781 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
Describing the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown
- Samuell Searls: Letter, May
12, 1782 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
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Paris Peace Treaty, 1783 [At
Yale] [Internet Archive version here] or here [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
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The Establishment of the
American State
- Albany Plan of Union,
1754 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- Articles of Confederation,
1781 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here] or here [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Federalist Papers [index at Yale] [Internet Archive version here] or here [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Jefferson Papers [index
at Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- James Madison : Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- Virginia Declaration of Rights,
1776 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here] or here [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Thomas Jefferson: Draft
for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1779 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786 text [Wikipidia]
Drafted by Jefferson and Madison, Jefferson considered it one of his greatest achievements.
The basis for the later First Amendment.
- James Madison: Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments, 1785 [At National Archives] [Internet Archive version here]
- Annapolis Convention Sept. 14,
1786 [Internet Archive version here]
- James Madison: Speech
proposing the Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
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James Madison: The Federalist No.10, 1787 [At LOC]
The difference between a republic and democracy/
- United States Constitution,
1787 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here] or here [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Letter of Transmittal of the U.S.
Constitution Sept. 17, 1787 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Judiciary Act of 1789 [[At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
established federal judiciary.
- George Washington: Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789
[At this Site]
- Proclamation
of Neutrality, 1793 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Fugitive Slave ACT 1793
[Was ay President's House, now Internet Archive]
- The Jay Treaty,
1794 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
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George Washington: Farewell Address, 1796 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here] or here [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
Washington's call the avoidance of "entangling alliances".
- John Adams: Inaugural address, 1797 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Inaugural Addresses of US Presidents,
1789-1997, Index [At this Site]
- WEB Papers of George Washington [At Virginia] [Internet Archive version here]
- Sedition Act July 14, 1798 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
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Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural, 1801 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here] or here [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography 1743-1790, 1821 [At
this Site]
Includes his account of events in Paris in 1789.
- WEB Works of Thomas Jefferson [At Liberty Online] [Internet Archive version here]
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- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy
in America, 1831, excerpts [At Hanover]
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America, Bk II, Chapters 22, 24, 25 [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America,
excerpts, Book II: Chapter 8: Book III, Chapters 3, 4 [At this Site]
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy
in America [At Virginia][Full Text] [Internet Archive version here]
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America Vol 1 [Project Gutenberg]
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America Vol 2 [Project Gutenberg]
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Native Americans
- WEB Native American Resources on the Web [Southern Connecticut]
- WEB National Museum of the American Indian
- WEB US Treaties with Native Americans: 1778-1868 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
Contains treaties/documents dealing with the following peoples: 1778: Delawares; 1782
Chickasaw; 1784 Six Nations; 1785 Wyandot, Cherokee; 1786 Chocktaw, Chickasaw,
Shawnee; 1789 Wyandot, Six Nations; 1790 Creeks; 1791 Cherokee; 1794 Cherokee, Six
Nations, Oneida; 1795 Greenville; 1805 Chickasaw; 1816 Chickasaw; 1818 Chickasaw; 1826
Chickasaws and Choctaws; 1828 Potawatami; 1830 Chickasaw; 1832 Potawatami; 1852
Apache; 1853 Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache; 1865 Cheyenne and Arapaho; Apache, Cheyenne, and
Arapaho; 1867 Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache; 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty.
- WEB Statutes of the United States Concerning Native Americans: Chronological [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- Thomas Morton: Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New
England), 1637 [At this Site]
- Governor Glen: The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England, 1761 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy [At this Site]
- Remonstrance of the Pennsylvania Frontiersmen: On the
Indians, 1764 [At this Site]
Calls for the removal of Indians.
- Chief Black Hawk (1767-1838): Autobiography [At this Site]
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Black Hawk: Surrender Speech, 1832 [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
- Smallpox, Indians, and Blankets [At this Site] See also Wikipedia: Siege of Fort Pitt
- The Treaty of Greenville, 1795 [At this Site] or here [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia, 1831 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Autobiography of Geronimo, full text, [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881): The Destiny of the Indian,
1851 [At this Site]
- The Dawes Act,
1887 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various
Reservations, and to Extend the Protection of the Laws of the United States and the
Territories over the Indians, and for Other Purposes.
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Slavery
- Pope Nicholas V: Dum Diversas 1452 [Wikipedia]
Bull Authorizing African Slave Trade
- Pope Paul III: Sublimus
Dei [On Slavery], 1537 [At Papal Encyclicals] [Internet Archive version here]
A Papal Bull attacking the slave trade. The first pope to condemn slavery as
"intrinsically evil" was John Paul II.
- Gottlieb
Mittelberger: On the Misfortune indentured Servants c. 1750 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- Chart: Atlantic Slave Trade: Carriers and Destinations of
Enslaved People [At this Site]
- Oladuah Equiano: The Life of Gustavus Vassa [At this Site]
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Oladuah Equiano: The Life of Gustavus Vassa [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]]
-
Oladuah Equiano: The
Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African,
London, 1789, full text of vol 1 [At Hanover]
- Oladuah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African,
London, 1789, full text of vol 1 [Project Gutenberg]
- Abraham up Den graef: A Minute Against Slavery, 1688. [At Quaker Writings] [Internet Archive version here]
The first religious protest against slavery in America, made at a Quaker meeting house.
- Slaves' Appeal to Thomas Gage, Royal Governor of
Massachusetts, May 25 1774 [At this Site]
An interesting use by enslaved people of arguments drawn from Natural Rights theory,
Christian brotherhood, and moral outrage.
- Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Slavery [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version here]
- John Wesley (1703-91): Thoughts Upon Slavery, 1774 [At UNC] [Internet Archive version here] or here [Was at UMC, now Internet Archive]
Wesley was opposed to slavery, but this is interesting as it includes explict descriptions
of the way in which people were enslaved and treated. A great example of the moral force
of Evangelical Christianity.
- WEB Documents on Slavery [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- WEB Statutes of the United States concerning Slavery: Chronological [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- WEB National Museum of African-American History and Culture
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