1. Read: From Empire to Independence - Document Overview
2. Read: Common Sense (1776)
3. Read: Declaration of Independence (1776)
4. Read: Louis Hacker Suggests Economic and Social Causes of the American Revolution (1937)
5. Read: Charles Andrews Presents a Political and Constitutional Explanation (1926)
6. Read: Lawrence Gipson Blames the Revolution on Changes Brought about by the Great War for Empire (1950)

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1. View: Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre
2. View: The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught, 1774
3. View: Americans throwing tea into the river, Boston, 1773
4. View: Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence
5. View: Patrick Henry
6. View: Boston Tea Party
7. View: Drafting the Declaration
8. View: Signers of the Declaration I
9. View: Signers of the Declaration II
10. View: The Treason of Arnold
11. View: Paul Revere
12. View: Carpenters' Hall, 1774
13. View: Minute Men (I)
14. View: Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death!
15. View: Minute Men (II)
16. View: Battle on the Gaspe
17. View: Minute Men advertisement

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1. View: The Frontier in the 1760s
2. View: Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775

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