Below is a list of documents that are on the U.S. History Documents CD-ROM that came with your text The American Journey, Third Edition. You can click on a link below to answer questions about each document. Results of this assessment can be e-mailed to your instructor.
Conflict on the Edge of the Empire, 1713-1774.
Colonizing the New World:
2-12 James Oglethorpe: The Stono Rebellion (1739)
Colonial America:
3-9 "The Storm Arising in the West," George Washington Delivers a Warning to the French (1753)
3-10 The Closing of the Frontier (1763)
3-11 The Adventures of Daniel Boone (1769)
The American Revolution:
5-2 James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1763)
5-6 Petition of "A Grate Number of Blackes of the Province" to Governor Thomas Gage and the Members of the Massachusetts General Court (1774)
Prelude to Revolution:
4-2 Declaration of the Injured Frontier Inhabitants [of Pennsylvania] (1764)
4-3 Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766)
4-4 "Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania" (1767)
4-5 John Dickinson, from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768)
4-6 The Boston “Massacre” or Victims of Circumstance? (1770)
4-7 John Andrews to William Barrell, Letter Regarding the Boston Tea Party (1773)
4-8 Address of the Inhabitants of Anson County to Governor Martin (1774)
