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
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