We already mentioned this one, but it bears repeating. Yale Law School has compiled several primary-source documents from both the colonists and Parliament during the revolutionary era, and put them all on this page for your convenient perusal.

We've got an entire learning guide devoted to the much-hated Stamp Act of 1765.

Enough is enough for the colonists. So, they—well Thomas Jefferson—whips up a very detailed document explaining why they need independence. We have an entire learning guide on this one.

Check out our entire learning guide for this treaty, which made the U.S. of A. official.

The Albany Plan of Union (unsuccessful), developed by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Hutchinson in 1754.

You can read Benjamin Franklin's autobiography online.

The Continental Congress statement of October 20th, 1774, declaring "the Association" of colonies who would boycott British goods.

The Continental Congress, Petition to the King, July 8th, 1775, known as the Olive Branch Petition.

An essay on the "Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of Independence."

The Articles of Capitulation under which British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered to the allied American and French forces.