Credit: Media type: print Museum Number: 532890 Annotation: This print appeared in a London newspaper on November 19, 1774, shortly after the Boston Tea Party. Although the print shows the British viewpoint toward rebellion, the colonists probably found the print to be positive…

Credit: Media type: print Museum Number: 532881 Year: 1783

Credit: Media type: engraving Museum Number: 532876 Year: 1777

Credit: Media type: treaty-image Museum Number: Annotation: The Treaty of Paris signed September 3, 1783. Year: 1783

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: illustration Museum Number: Annotation: This is the only surviving fragment of the earliest draft of the Declaration of Independence. This fragment demonstrates that Jefferson heavily edited his first draft of the Declaration of Independence before he prepared…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: broadside Museum Number: Annotation: This boycott was issued by the First Continental Congress, and it asked merchants to boycott British goods and not order products from Britain until the grievances between the two countries were settled. The…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: illustration Museum Number: LC-USZC4-5289 Annotation: This cartoon appeared in London Magazine and shows Lord North, the Prime Minister of Britain and the architect of the so-called Intolerable Acts, pushing those acts down the throat of a woman identified in the…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: book cover Museum Number: Year: 1750

Credit: The Print Collection, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Media type: political cartoon Museum Number: Year: 1776

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1820

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1817

Credit: National Gallery of Art Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1778