These United Colonies: The American War of Independence Exhibit

The Colonies

Georgia

King George III

Letter from George III

The Stamp Act

Stamp Act text
No Stamps to be Had - Philadelphia Gazette
Benjamin Franklin's Testimony

The Boston Massacre

Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre
Eyewitnesses from Both Sides
The Aftermath of the Boston Massacre - Trial

The Intolerable Acts

The Boston Port Act
The Quartering Act
The Quebec Act
Massachusetts Government Act
Administration of Justice Act

The First Continental Congress

Patrick Henry's Speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses
Declaration and Resolves
Speech of Edmund Burke

The Treachery of Benedict Arnold
Loyalists
Independence

The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson's Rough Draft

The Continental Army

George Washington's Diary
The Battle of Quebec

The Continental Congress

Speech of Edmund Burke

Thomas Paine

American Crisis

Concord and Lexington
Benjamin Franklin

Franklin's testimony before Parliament
The Stamp Act text

The Second Continental Congress

Petition to the King
Colonial Currency
Lee's Resolution for Independence
Commission to General Washington
Speech to the Six Nations

Surrender at Yorktown

Black History

The Civil Rights Movement
The Black History Book Collection