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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)

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