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" 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 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 (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 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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Braddock's Defeat by George Washington July 18, 1755 This letter, written by 23-year-old George Washington to his mother, Mary Washington, describes the battle near Pittsburgh in the French and Indian War in which the British and British Colonial forces under ...
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The Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation by George Washington 1 Every action done in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those that are present. 2 When in company, put not your ...
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How The Pilgrims Lived by Governor Edward Winslow 1621 This description of the life of the Pilgrims following the landing of the Mayflower was written as a letter by pilgrim Edward Winslow soon after the landing. During the first winter ...
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The Mayflower Compact by William Bradford November 11, 1620 The Mayflower Compact was drawn up on the Mayflower, under these circumstances as described by Gov. William Bradford: "This day, before we came to harbour, observing some not well affected to ...
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The Settlement Of Jamestown - 1607 by Captain John Smith This narrative is taken from the third book of the five volume "The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles: Together with The True Travels, Adventures and ...
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