Category: Historical Documents

George III’s Letter on the Loss of America – 1780s

George III's Letter on the Loss of America The precise date of this letter by King George III is unknown, but it is believed that he wrote it in the 1780s. America is lost! Must we fall beneath the blow? ...
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Articles of Confederation – 1777

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION 1777 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WE THE DELEGATES OF THE STATES AFFIXED TO OUR NAMES SEND GREETING. WHEREAS, the Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth ...
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Samuel Adams Advocates American Independence – 1776

Samuel Adams Advocates American Independence Samuel Adams (1722-1803) August 1, 1776 Samuel Adams, one of the most ardent of the Founding Fathers in his desire for independence from England, delivered this speech to a numerous audience at the State House ...
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Declaration of Independence – 1776

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE In CongressJuly 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of The Thirteen United States of America When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...
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Virginia Declaration of Rights – 1776

The Virginia Declaration of Rights Written by George Mason (1725-1792), who Thomas Jefferson regarded as the "the wisest man of his generation," the Virginia Declaration of Rights was adopted by the Virginia Constitutional Convention on June 12, 1776. Widely copied ...
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Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms – July 6, 1775

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms July 6, 1775 This document was prepared by the Second Continental Congress to explain to the world why the British colonies had taken up arms against Great Britain. It is ...
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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death – 1775

"Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" Patrick Henry March 23, 1775 After Patrick Henry made this famous speech before the Virginia House of Burgesses at St. John's Church, his resolution to organize the milita of Virginia and to put ...
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Daniel Boone’s Move to Kentucky, by Theodore Roosevelt

Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky by Theodore Roosevelt The American backwoodsmen had surged up, wave upon wave, till their mass trembled in the troughs of the Alleghanies, ready to flood the continent beyond. The people threatened by them were dimly ...
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Daniel Boone Settles Kentucky, by Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone Settles Kentucky by Daniel Boone (1734-1820) Boone wrote this account, with the help of a friend, many years after the founding of Boonesborough, Kentucky. It was on the first of May, in the year 1769, that I resigned ...
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In Opposition to Writs of Assistance – 1761

In Opposition to Writs of Assistance by James Otis (1725-1783) February, 1761 This speech, delivered before the Superior Court in Boston in February, 1761, was earliest of the significant speeches helping to precipitate Independence from Britain. John Adams declared that, ...
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