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"No taxation without representation" - The intellectual origins of the American Revolution

"A threat to their prosperity and liberty..." - Violent Intimidation

"Let the Daughters of Liberty, nobly arise" - The politics of boycotts

"Horrid Massacre or Unhappy Disturbance" - Bloodshed in Boston

"This meeting can do nothing more to save the country" - Politics and a Party

Spinning wheel

Resources

Excerpt from James Otis’ address to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts regarding the Writs of Assistance (HTML)
Christopher Gadsden 1769 address to South Carolina Assembly (HTML)
Hannah Griffitts, The Female Patriots, 1768 poem (HTML)
Royall Tyler (1757-1826) as written in his manuscript The Bay-Boy, published first in The Prose of Royall Tyler (Vermont Historical Society, 1972) http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2006/05/spinning-bee-in-chelmsford-21-may.html (HTML)