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Politics in Colonial Virginia
Pre-Independence
- Virginia Time Line, 1760-1776
- Historical Background-from the Stamp Act Crisis to Revolution
- Summary of the 1765 Stamp Act
- Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions
- William Pitt's Speech Against the Stamp Act
- Print image: The Repeal, Or the Funeral of Miss Ame-Stamp (75k)
- Print image: The Alternative of Williamsburg (105k)
- Words to the song The Glorious Seventy Four
- Summary View of the Rights of British America
- Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
- "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death"
- Virginia Declaration of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- Virginia Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Post-Independence
- United States Articles of Confederation
- United States Constitution
- Amendments to the United States Constitution
- George Washington's First Inaugural Address
- George Washington's Second Inaugural Address
- Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
- Thomas Jefferson's Second Inaugural Address
Biographical Material:
- George Washington
- Thomas Jefferson
- George Wythe
- St. George Tucker
- The Randolph family and slaves
- Patrick Henry
- Richard Henry Lee (fact sheet)
- George Mercer (fact sheet)
- John Robinson (fact sheet)
Quiz: Test your knowledge of American history
Multimedia and related links
Slideshows
The Signatures of the Declaration of Independence - Zoomable
Dunlap Broadsides - Zoomable
Constitution of the United States - Zoomable
Patrick Henry's Resolutions - Zoomable
Zoom in on the Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
Jefferson's Constitution Zoomable
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Podcasts
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We hold these truths
Hear the words that started a war, read by Thomas Jefferson interpreter Bill Barker. Episode one of July's Revolutionary Documents series. June 30, 2008
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Downloads
Screensaver: Voting
From the article "Voting in Early America" in the Spring 07 Journal
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Journal articles
Debating the Bill of Rights
"What No Government Should Refuse, or Rest on Inference"
Voting in Early America
Presidential Portraits
"Stuart is all the rage, he is almost worked to death...."
"The Model of an American Whig"
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Voting (Screensaver)
Historic Triangle
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