America250: Politics, Taxes, and Revolution Materials

These are materials from the collections of the State library of Pennsylvania digitized as part of the State Library's contribution to the America250 celebration. Most of the materials are newly-digitized items, now freely available to the public for the first time. Visit the individual America250 theme pages on this site to view all utilized digitized materials, both newly-digitized by the State Library of Pennsylvania and other materials held by the State Library of Pennsylvania but already freely-available.

This collection showcases opinions from both sides of the conflict between Great Britain and the American colonies as the disagreement moved from tension, to resistance, to open war and, in the aftermath, the difficulties in creating a new form of government for the United States of America.