The War for Independence

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The War for Independence

Read Digital History textbook: 18th Century: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=2&smtid=2 The American Revolution: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=3&smtid=2 In preparation for the midterm exam, be able to describe (what is it and when was it?) and analyze (what is its wider significance to the history of the United States?): “English liberties,” the Great Awakening, the French and Indian War, Pontiac’s rebellion, the Stamp Act, George Washington, the Battle of Saratoga, Loyalists, the American Revolution, new state constitutions Select significant passages from at least three of the following primary sources for your Reflective Essay: Declaration of Independence (1776), https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript [Herman Mann.] A Citizen of Massachusetts. The Female Review: Or, Memoirs of an American Young Lady (orig. pub. 1797; repub. 1916), click HERE Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave (1834), click HERE William L. Stone, Life of Joseph Brant–Tayendanegea: Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution, vol. 1 (1838), http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52072/52072-h/52072-h.htm