Directions: Examine the documents listed below. Include quotes or excerpts from these documents when and if they pertain to your topic. Every site is required to present key quotes or documents we should know when reviewing for our Document Based Questions.

1. Jean de Crevecoeur, "Letters from an American Farmer"
2. John Dickinson, "Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer"
3. Jean Jacques Rousseau, "The Social Contract and Discourses"
4. "Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress", Oct. 9, 1765
5. "The Declaratory Act", 1766
6. Thomas Paine. From Common Sense, Jan. 10, 1776. Writings, volume I.
7. The Declaration of Independence 1776
8. The Articles of Confederation, 1777
9. "Worries about Shays' Rebellion." From the New England Quarterly, "Oratorical Afterthoughts on American Independence," September, 1935, volume VIII
10. Treaty of Paris  1783
11. Northwest Ordinance of 1787
12. Benjamin Franklin. "Commenting on the Great Compromise", at the Constitutional Convention, 1787. From James Madison, "Journal of the Constitutional Convention," Writings", volume IV.