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The Massachusetts Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:

Analysis
Critical Thinking
Point of View
Compare and Contrast
Order of Events
And Much More!

Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!

The 20 Massachusetts Primary Sources are:
1. Bronze statue of John Winthrop in Boston first governor of Massachusetts
2. Illustration of seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony created mid 1600s
3. Illustration of British ships and soldiers arriving in Boston Harbor 1768
4. Oil portrait of Massachusetts patriot Paul Revere 1768
5. Engraving depicting the Boston Massacre 1770
6. Oil portrait of Samuel Adams 1772
7. Lithograph of the Boston Tea Party 1773
8. Illustration of the Battle of Lexington 1775
9. Engraving showing the drafting committee for the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman 1776
10. Replica of the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776
11. Oil painting entitled The Death of Major Peirson Battle of New Jersey painted by John Singleton Copley of Massachusetts, one of the finest painters of colonial America 1781
12 Official presidential portrait of John Adams 1792
13. Photograph of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross ca. 1860
14. Photograph of Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, posing with a camera, another of his interests 1872
15. Photograph of Susan B. Ant