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Toward Independence

Colonial America

Colonial Charters
Sermons and Speeches
Pamphlets and Treatises
Benjamin Franklin, On the Freedom of the Press, 1737

Continental Congress

First and Second Congress
The Northwest Ordinances (1784; 1785; 1787)
1787 ordinance passed by the Confederation Congress to govern the territories and admit new states to the Union

Achieving Independence

Debates within and without the Colonies
The Revolutionary War

From Confederation to Constitutional Convention

George Washington, Circular Letter to the States, 1783
Resolution of Congress (February 21, 1787)
John Adams
James Madison

Debates Within and Without the Colonies

Wilkes, On Coercive Measures in America

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