American Independence Debate

Click on each character's name to read the corresponding document(s).  Please note that students assigned to characters I and II must read all material listed for that character.  Those who are assigned characters VII and XII must read and analyze not only the document written by their character, but also any additional supplemental documents as listed.

I.  Abigail Adams (letters 1, 2, and 3)

II.  John Adams (and "Novanglus")

III.  John Dickinson

IV.  Patrick Henry

V.  The Reverend Charles Inglis

VI.  Thomas Jefferson (and rough draft of the Declaration of Independence)

VII.  King George III (also William Pym)

VIII.  Loyalists of Anson County, North Carolina

IX.  Thomas Hutchinson

X.  Mercy Otis Warren

XI.  Samuel Adams

XII.  Quock Walker (also Slaves' petition and newspaper article on slavery)