Primary Sources of the American Revolution: Thomas Paine - American Crisis (1780-83) | Saylor Academy

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Let's analyze some primary sources on the American Revolution. Choose at least one primary source document written between 1751–1775 and one written between 1776–1785 and answer these questions: Who authored the document? Were they in favor or opposed to the revolution? Was it written before or after the Declaration of Independence? Why is this important? What does the author argue? Do they support or oppose the revolution? Where do you see Enlightenment ideology? How do the ideas in the document compare to the ideas of Paine and Dulaney?

COURSE INTRODUCTION

Course Syllabus

Unit 1: The Nature of Revolution

1.1: What is Revolution?

Mass Protests and the Military

The Long 19th Century

The Two Effects of Revolution

1.2: Ideologies of Revolution

Conflict Theory and Society

What Is the Tocqueville Effect?

1.3: Paving the Way to Revolution

Global Inequality

Modern Revolution

Dutch and British Exceptionalism

Absolutism and the State

The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere

What Is Enlightenment?

The Social Contract

The Future Progress of the Human Mind

1.4: The English Revolution of 1688

Oliver Cromwell

The Political Development of the British State

How "Glorious" was the English Revolution of 1688?

1.5: Government, Citizens' Rights, and Religion versus the State

800 Years of the Magna Carta

The English Bill of Rights of 1689

Hobbes on Authority, Human Rights, and Social Order

A Letter Concerning Toleration

The Levellers and Locke

A Short History of Human Rights

The Magna Carta versus the Bill of Rights

Formative Documents on Citizens' Rights

Unit 1 Assessment

Unit 1 Assessment

Unit 2: The American Revolution

2.1: Origins of the American Revolution

Being a British Colonist

The Origins of the American Revolution

Studying the American Revolution

Common Sense

Considerations October 1765

Logic of Resistance

The War for Independence

The Consequences of the American Revolution

Being an American: The Legacy of the Revolution

Primary Sources of the American Revolution

2.2: Revolutionizing Governance

The Articles of Confederation

Article I of the U.S. Constitution

Keys to Understanding the Constitution

The Iroquois Government

The Constitution of The Iroquois Nations Around 1500

The Enlightenment and the American Revolution

Interpreting the Bill of Rights

The U.S. Bill of Rights

Federalists versus Anti-Federalists

What Are Civil Liberties?

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 3: The French Revolution and Its Legacy

3.1: Roots of Revolution

Beginning of the French Revolution

Taxes and the Three Estates

The French Revolution

3.2: The Republic, Reign of Terror, and Thermidorean Reaction

Louis XIV and Versailles

Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette's Letter to Her Mother

The French Revolution, Part 1

The French Revolution, Part 2

Maximilien Robespierre

The Reign of Terror

The Eleventh of Thermidor

The Fall of the Republic

3.3: Revolution and New Government

Diderot's 1750 Encyclopedia

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Declaration of the Rights of Women

Admission of Jews to Rights of Citizenship