Shot Heard 'Round the World

PROTEST TO REBELLION 1767-1774

The Townshend Acts

• Land of the Brave explanation - http://www.landofthebrave.info/townshend-acts.htm
• History.com - http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts
• Primary - http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/townshend.htm
• Coming of the American Revolution - http://www.masshist.org/revolution/townshend.php

Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer –

• http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1751-1775/john-dickensons-letter-2-from-letters-from-a-farmer-1767-1768.php
• http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1751-1775/john-dickensons-letter-4-from-letters-from-a-farmer-1767-1768.php

Boston Massacre

• Boston Massacre Historical Society - http://www.bostonmassacre.net/
• Revere’s Engraving - http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/massacre.html
• Coming of the American Revolution - http://www.masshist.org/revolution/massacre.php
• Preston’s Account - http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1751-1775/captain-prestons-account-of-the-boston-massacre-march-5-1770.php
• Anonymous Account - http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1751-1775/anonymous-account-of-the-boston-massacre-march-5-1770.php
• Boston Massacre Files - http://bostonhistory.org/sub/bostonmassacre/
• You Be the Judge - http://chnm.gmu.edu/tah-loudoun/blog/lessons/the-boston-massacre-you-be-the-judge/
• Who was to Blame? - http://www.history.org/history/teaching/enewsletter/volume8/sept09/teachstrategy.cfm

 Tea Act

• http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/tea-act
• http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-tea-act
• http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/teaactdef.htm
• http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1248.html
• http://www.landofthebrave.info/tea-act.htm

Boston Tea Party

• Have Fun with History - http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/activities/btp.html
• Read, Write, Think - http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/boston-party-took-place-20371.html
• High Tea in Boston Harbor - http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_boston1774.html
• http://www.libertyskids.com/
• The Effect - http://mrnussbaum.com/history-2-2/btparty/
• Boston Tea Party Museum - http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/?s=boston+tea+party&cat=199%2C342%2C203

Intolerable Acts

• Calami – tea - http://www.landofthebrave.info/tea-act.htm
• Definition - http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/intolerableactsdef.htm
• The die is cast - http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-intolerable-acts
• Political Cartoon - http://www.historywiz.com/intolerable.htm
• Related Articles - http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwar1/p/jutland.htm

Committee of Correspondence

• http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h675.html
• http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/committees-of-correspondence
• http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/committees-of-correspondence
• Primary documents - http://www.masshist.org/revolution/committees.php
• Virginia - http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/va_res_corres_1773.asp

Lexington and Concord

• US History.org - http://www.ushistory.org/us/11c.asp
• History.com - http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battles-of-lexington-and-concord
• Kidport - http://www.kidport.com/reflib/usahistory/americanrevolution/lexingtonbattle.htm
• For Crown or Colony - http://www.mission-us.org/
• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere - http://revolution.mrdonn.org/paulrevere.html
• The Forgotten Midnight Rider - http://historyofmassachusetts.org/william-dawes/