Resources for Teachers
(These are hotlinks which
will take you to pages with documents or a collection of links to documents)
Primary Documents on the
Revolution on the Web
Documents:
Rough
Music: Judge Peter Oliver's Appendix,
1774-1775
Patriarchy: William
Byrd’s Diary
Documents
on the Internal Revolution: http://research.umbc.edu/~bouton/History101/Democracy1776.htm
Includes
Documents on:
Materialism and The Great Awakening
Class and Politics in
Slaves and
Gender and the Revolution:
The letters of John and Abigail Adams
Alexander Hamilton and John
Adams on “The People”
Gouverneur Morris (one of the architects of the federal
Constitution on “The People” as “Reptiles”
Documents
on Democracy and the new 1776 State Governments: http://research.umbc.edu/~bouton/History101/Governments1776.htm
Includes
Documents on:
Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776
(abridged)
Comments on the
Maryland Constitution of
1776 (abridged)
Comments on the
“A
Stronger Barrier Against Democracy”: The Founders at
the Constitutional Convention