The hands-on history in this Jackdaw takes your students from the Boston Tea Party to Bunker Hill and the struggle to field and fund our army. Hands-on documents include a handbill persuading British soldiers to desert, a proclamation by King George III ordering his subjects to fast, a 1783 issue of the South Carolina Gazette, early American “home-made” money, and a fund raising lottery ticket. Historian: David Johnson. The contents of this Jackdaw feature:

• Tea, Tax and Trouble
• Gentleman Johnny
• The Old Fox
• The World Turned Upside Down
• The Big Country

• Letter from colonist to East India Co., London, about the Boston Tea Party.
• Plan of Boston and Bunker Hill, scene of the first battles.
• Proclamation by George III ordering his subjects to fast.
• Original Declaration of Independence with notes.
• Declaration of Independence, drawn by Congress in 1776.
• Resolve of Congress giving Washington power to raise forces and make people accept American paper money.
• Lieutenant Digby’s Journal — pages from a young officer.
• Letter from General Heath to General Burgoyne about the behavior of British soldiers in captivity.
• Letter from General Washington to Governor Clinton.
• An issue of the South Carolina Gazette, published in 1783.
• Commission posting Benjamin Hopkins as an officer to a regiment commanded by Seth Warner.
• Early American paper money.
• Lottery ticket printed to help raise money for the war.
• American handbill to persuade British soldiers to desert.
• Order of Battle — drawn by George Washington, 1777.
• Capt. Cooley’s note authorizing provisions for scouts.
• Reconnaissance order giving instructions for a mission.
• Map of the battlefields of the American Revolution.