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Road to Revolution: 1763-1776
A journal from the Congress of American Colonies in 1765, gathered in response to the Stamp Act.

A journal from the Congress of American Colonies in 1765, gathered in response to the Stamp Act.

Citation Information
Excerpt from “Journal of the first Congress of the American Colonies, in opposition to the tyrannical acts of the British Parliament,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/49d77aef2167a57fa4ea4013d44df8d6.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Indiana University via HathiTrust.

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Item 3 of 14 in the Primary Source Set Road to Revolution: 1763-1776

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The text of the 1765 Stamp Act, from a pamphlet printed in 1895.
A journal from the Congress of American Colonies in 1765, gathered in response to the Stamp Act.
An illustration of a Stamp Act protest in 1765.
A “No Stamp Act” teapot, circa 1766-1770.
A British text justifying taxation, 1766.
An illustration of the Boston Massacre, 1770.
A mid-nineteenth century illustration of the Boston Massacre by Washington Irving.
A letter from Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and others requesting a town hall meeting to consider the Tea Act, 1773.
A Committee of Correspondence letter to Benjamin Franklin in London, December 21, 1775.
The minutes from a meeting of the Committees of Correspondence in Massachusetts regarding British occupation, February 25, 1775.
Four illustrations depicting the battle of Lexington Green, 1775.
A deposition of a colonial militiaman from the battle of Lexington and Concord, April 25, 1775.
A sermon preached on the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1776.

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