Rise to Rebellion: 1754-1776



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A Contest Appears to be Opened: 1754-1764
That Dark and Bloody River  ∙  The French & Indian War  ∙  Writs of Assistance  ∙  Pontiac’s Rebellion  ∙  The Proclamation of 1763  ∙  Grenville’s Revenue and Currency Acts  ∙  ‘The Sugar Act’  ∙  The Declaration of Rights ∙  ‘no taxation without representation’


The Stamp Act  ∙  Much Affection Lost  ∙  The Virginia Resolves  ∙  John Locke’s ‘Social Contract’  ∙  Boston: Seedbed of Revolution  ∙  The Loyal Nine and the Sons of Liberty  ∙ Samuel Adams: Chief Incendiary and Architect of Revolution  ∙  Rioting in Boston  ∙  The Stamp Act Congress & The Declaration of Rights and Grievances  ∙  The Non-Importation Agreement of 1765  ∙  The Repeal of the Stamp Act  ∙  The Declaratory Act


New York & The Quartering Act  ∙  Champagne Charlies  ∙  The Townshend Acts  ∙  Nonconsumption & Nonimportation  ∙  A Farmer in Pennsylvania  ∙  Lord North Takes Charge  ∙ The Massachusetts Circular Letter  ∙  Impressment by the Romney  ∙  The Seizure of the Liberty  ∙  The Glorious Ninety-Two  ∙  The Sons of Liberty Rise Again  ∙  Redcoats to Boston


The First Troops Arrive  ∙  The Manufactory House  ∙  The Repeal of the Townsend Acts (Minus Tea)  ∙  Nonimportation: Boston Stands Alone  ∙  An Uneasy Winter  ∙  Redcoats and Lobster Backs  ∙  The Journal of the Times  ∙  Boston Gets a New Governor  ∙  The Liberty Song  ∙  A British Conspiracy  ∙  Lord North as Prime Minister


A Tweaked Nose and a Coffee House Brawl  ∙  An Incident on Boston Neck  ∙  The Escapades of John Mein  ∙  Tyranny or Chains  ∙  The Storied Career of John Wilkes  ∙  The MacDougall Affair  ∙  The Brawl on Golden Hill  ∙  The Saga of Lillie and Richardson  ∙  A Martyr’s Funeral 


Rope-Makers and Redcoats  ∙  An Apprentice’s Plight  ∙  A Damned Rascally Scoundrel Lobster Son of a Bitch  ∙  A Town in Search of Blood  ∙  Captain Preston’s Rescue Operation  ∙  A Horrid Massacre  ∙  Sam Adams’ Regiments  ∙  John Adams and Redcoats on Trial  ∙  A Day of Infamy


A Rebel Without A Cause  ∙  Chronus and Candidus  ∙  The Carolina Regulators  ∙  Lord Dartmouth  ∙  The Gaspee Affair  ∙  Committees of Correspondence  ∙  The Boston Pamphlet  ∙  A Province Aflame  ∙  The Hutchinson Letters  ∙  Hints on How to Make a Great Empire into a Smaller One


The East India Company  ∙  The Tea Act of 1773  ∙  American Indignation  ∙  Coffee: The American Stimulant  ∙  New York and Pennsylvania Take the Lead  ∙  Boston Plays Catch-Up  ∙  An Implacable Game of Tug-of-War  ∙  Guerrilla Theater  ∙  An Epocha in History


To Master the Colonies  ∙  The Intolerable and Coercive Acts  ∙  The Boston Port Bill  ∙  The Massachusetts Government Act  ∙  The Administration of Justice Act  ∙  The Quartering Act  ∙  The Quebec Act  ∙  All America Aflame  ∙  Gage Arrives in Boston  ∙  The Militarization of Boston  ∙  The Worcester and Cambridge Debacles∙  A Colonial Powder Keg


Philadelphia 1774  ∙  The Fairfax Resolves  ∙  First Things: Voting, American Rights, and the Galloway Plan  ∙  The Suffolk Resolves  ∙  The Association  ∙  The Declaration of Rights  ∙  A Petition to the King  ∙  On Independence and Revolution  ∙  Reactions in the Colonies  ∙  Reactions in England


Winter Comes to Boston  ∙  The Storming of Fort William and Mary  ∙  A Sleeping and Confounded Ministry  ∙  American Clowns  ∙  Showdown at Salem  ∙  Dividing Lines: Patriots vs. Tories  ∙  The Marshfield Adventures  ∙  Franklin Comes Home  ∙  Gage’s Green Light

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