The Imperial Crisis

LOC_MassSpy

Revere, Paul, 1735–1818, artist. [Masthead and part of front page of The Massachusetts spy, or,
Thomas’s Boston journal showing a female figure of Liberty in upper left and rattlesnake labeled
“Join or Die” symbolizing the 13 colonies, challenging a griffin, across the top], July 7, 1774.
(Library of Congress)

Readings:

American Yawp, chap. 5, “The American Revolution,” sections I–IV


Young, Shoemaker and the Tea Party, vii–xvii, 1–57

 

The Seven Years’ War
Independence