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What was it like to be part of the American Revolution? Personal accounts, newspaper stories, and other primary sources give students an opportunity to see what it was like to live during this amazing time in history.
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A Primary Source History of the American Revolution - Sarah Powers Webb
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COVER
TITLE PAGE
A NOTE ABOUT PRIMARY SOURCES
REASONS FOR WAR
REBELLION ERUPTS
REVOLUTION
EARLY BATTLES
THE TIDE TURNS
LIBERTY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
GLOSSARY
INDEX
COPYRIGHT
BACK COVER
A NOTE ABOUT PRIMARY SOURCES
Primary sources are newspaper articles, photographs, speeches, or other documents that were created during an event. They are great ways to see how people spoke and felt during that time. You’ll find primary sources from the time of the American Revolution throughout this book. Within the text, primary source quotations are colored brown and set in italic type.
REASONS FOR WAR
In the 1700s Great Britain’s King George III ruled the 13 American colonies. These colonies had developed with little interference from the British government.
By 1763 Great Britain had won a war against France for control of North American land and its resources. The war left Great Britain with huge debts and new lands to protect. To solve its problems, the British government placed new laws on the colonies. Some of these laws required the colonists to pay taxes. Colonists felt these taxes challenged their rights. They were angry because they had no representative in British Parliament to vote on these laws. Some people used violence and boycotts to protest the taxes. Thomas Jefferson, a political leader from Virginia, said British laws were a "deliberate …
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