Primary Source Activities

• What is Liberty?
• Opposition to the 1765 Stamp Act
• Birth of the "Sons of Liberty"
• Tar'd and Feather'd'
• Eyewitness Accounts of the "Boston Massacre"
• Poem Written After the "Boston Massacre"
• The "Tea Never Should be Landed"
• A Public Execution by the Sons of Liberty
• The "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" Speech
• What Happened on the Evening of April 18 and Early Morning of April 19, 1775?
• An Eyewitness to the Events in Lexington
• Abigail Adams Expresses Her Support For the blacks
• The Royal Proclamation on North America by King George III

Photographs

• "Poor Old England" cartoon
• Ben Franklin at the Court of France
• The Bostonians in distress
• Tarring and Feathering Cartoon
• The Boston Massacre, Illustration by Paul Revere
• Boston Tea Party Illustration
• Recruiting Notice Poster
• Runaway Fight of the Regulars Article
• Boston Massacre Print

Glossary

• liberty pole
• liberty tree
• Loyalists
• macaroni
• martial law
• militia
• minuteman
• necessaries
• propaganda
• ragtag
• read the riot act
• redoubt
• red tape
• regular
• scapegoat
• Sons of Liberty
• state troops
• Tories
• volley
• Whigs
• Yankee
• Yankee Doodle