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Ideas of Independence and Rights

Please read the following selections and then answer the questions in the space provided.

Rights of Women in an Independent Republic

Petition of “A Grate Number of Blackes of the Province” to Governor Thomas Gage and the Members of the Massachusetts General Court (1774)

James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1763)

Thomas Jefferson, “Original Rough Draught” of the Declaration of Independence (1776)

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