Free Stamp Act Primary Sources Sampler PDF — Road to Revolution Grades 8–10 (1765–1774)

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Free printable primary-source activity for grades 8–10: three short Road to Revolution documents with Core questions, sentence starters, and a teacher answer key. PDF plus editable DOCX; about one class period. Students ask whether the quarrel with Britain was about taxes, or about who rules.

• Three cited excerpts: Stamp Act Congress resolutions (1765), Declaratory Act (1766), First Continental Congress Declaration and Resolves (1774)

• Context note, key words, and questions with sentence starters on each card (Core level)

• Short teacher answer key

• Print-ready PDF (US Letter, 6 pages) and editable DOCX

• Every excerpt cited to its printed edition with a link students can open

• Public-domain sources only — no invented quotes

How this was made: AI tools helped draft the context notes, questions, and answer key, and helped find and format the excerpts. Every quotation was checked word for word against the cited source text. The historical documents are public-domain originals, not AI-generated. Preview images come from the actual pack pages; no AI images are used.

Content notes: none needed; none of the three excerpts carries a content note.

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