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Read the following resources to refresh your understanding of the issues that led the colonies to revolt against Great Britain. As you read, think about how you might revise your answers to the Reflect on Your Knowledge questions based on new knowledge gained from the readings.
American Revolution Chronology: 1763-1776
http://home.u-s-history.com/pages/h1203.html
American Revolution Outline
http://faculty.polytechnic.org//gfeldmeth/USHistory.html
Select "Outlines and Charts" on the left side navigation.
The Papers of George Washington: George Washington to Francis Dandridge, September 20, 1765
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/revolution/letters/ dandridge.html
The Papers of George Washington: George Washington to Robert Cary & Co., July 21, 1766
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/revolution/letters/ cary2.html
Loyalists During the American Revolution
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch3_p14.htm
"Dirty Little Secret" by Simon Schama
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/presence-may06.html
Loyalist Quotation Excerpts [PDF]
"Social War" by Wallace Brown [PDF]
"Curse All Traitors!" (Letter of a Loyalist Lady) [PDF]
Optional
Oliver, Peter. Douglass Adair and John A Schutz (Eds.) Peter Oliver's Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion: A Tory View. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1961.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States). New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2005. [See descriptions of the Battle of Guilford Court House in Chapters 19 and 20.]
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