American Independence: Changing Ideas from 1763 to 1783
Question 1
Evaluate the extent to which ideas about American independence changed from 1763 to 1783.
Document 1 is the Teapot, made in England between 1766 and 1770, inscribed on one side with "No Stamp Act" and on the other with "America, Liberty Restored."
Document 2 is from the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Virginia Resolves, 1769.
Document 3 is from Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists, 1772.
Document 4 is from Quaker leaders address to the Pennsylvania colonial assembly in January 1775.
Document 5 is from Janet Shaw who was a Scot visiting her brother, a merchant in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Document 6 is from Charles Inglis, an Anglican church minister in New York City in 1776.
Document 7 is from Thomas Paine's The American Crisis published on December 23, 1776.
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