CONTENTS
2. Mary Rowlandson Recounts Her Captivity
3. The First Thanksgiving Proclamation
4. Edward Randolph’s 1676 Report on New England’s Disregard of Britain’s Trade Laws
5. John Cotton on the Abuse of Power
6. Anne Bradstreet’s “Epitaph on a Patriot”
7. Epitaph of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Him in 1728
8. Peter Kalm on America’s Likely Break with England
1. Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Defends Civil Resistance
2. Samuel Davies’s “Religion and Patriotism the Constituents of Good Soldiers”
3. James Otis Opposes Arbitrary Law Enforcement
4. Benjamin Franklin’s Advice on Becoming Wealthy
5. Benjamin Franklin’s Catechism on National Debt
6. Declaration of Rights—from the Stamp Act Congress
7. Benjamin Franklin’s Notions Concerning Trade and Merchants
8. John Dickinson’s “The Liberty Song”
9. Samuel Adams on the Rights of the Americans
10. Rev. Samuel Cooke, An Election Sermon
11. Paul Revere on the Cause of the Quarrel
12. A Song about the Boston Tea Party
13. George Washington on the Question of Rebellion
1. A Letter from George Washington to His Generals
2. John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson on the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms
3. George Washington Fixes a Date to Cross the Delaware
5. Richard Henry Lee Offers “Certain Resolutions” in the Congress
6. John Adams’s Letter to William Cushing
7. The Times That Try Men’s Souls
8. The Declaration of Independence
9. Benjamin Rush Opposes Price Controls
10. Letter from Abigail to John Adams, Boston
11. Paul Revere's Famous Ride, in His Own Words
12. Thomas Jefferson on Passing the Declaration of Independence
13. General Hull on the Killing of His Friend Nathan Hale
14. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (Selections)
15. The Articles of Confederation
16. The Conditions at Valley Forge
17. Life and Death on a British Prison Ship
18. “The British Prison Ship” by Philip Morin Freneau
19. General Washington’s Circular Letter to the Governors of Each of the States
1. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Asks, “What Is an American?”
2. Benjamin Franklin’s Advice for Those Coming to America
3. From “The Happiness of America” by David Humphreys
4. Thomas Jefferson on Decentralized Government and the Judiciary
5. Benjamin Franklin on the Pursuits of Power and Position
6. Patrick Henry Calls for an End to Slavery’s “Lamentable Evil”
7. Thomas Paine Entreats Americans to End Slavery
8. George Washington on the Subject of Slavery
9. Selections from The Federalist Papers
10. The Constitution of the United States
11. Jack Nips on Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Freedom of Religion
12. Joel Barlow on Separation of Church and State
14. Amendments XI through XXVII
15. Thomas Paine on Despotism through Bureaucracies
16. Thomas Paine on Unequal Taxation
17. Timothy Stone’s 1792 Election Sermon
18. Joseph Hopkinson’s “Hail Columbia!”
1. The First Inaugural Address of George Washington
2. Report on Manufactures, by Alexander Hamilton
3. Benjamin Rush on Education in the New Republic
4. The First Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson
5. Noah Webster’s Oration on the Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence