Preliminaries Of The Revolution 1763-1775 (1905)

The Struggle Between The English Colonies And The Parent State Resulting In The Recognition Of A New And Dominant Nation In The Western Hemisphere Is Justly Regarded As A Revolution. Its Preliminaries Cover The Twelve Years Between The Peace Of Paris In 1763 And The Appeal To Arms In 1775; But Its Causes Are More Remote. Up To The Very Beginning Of Hostilities The Colonists Disclaimed Any Desire For Independence; Yet It Seems Clear To Us That Unconsciously They Had Long Been Preparing Themselves For That Event. The Origin Of The Revolution Is Coeval With The Earliest Dawning Of A Sentiment Of American Union. Its Assigned Causes Are Indeed Mainly Economic And Political. It Was Not A Social Revolution In The Conventional Sense; Yet It Was Profoundly Sociological In Character. The Conditions Were Favorable To The Rise Of A More United And A Freer Society In America; But This Was Hindered By The Inertia Of A Colonial System Which The American People Had Outgrown... - George Elliott Howard. Contents: The French War Reveals An American People (1763). The British Empire Under George Iii (1760-1775). The Mercantile Colonial System (1660-1775). The First Protest Of Massachusetts (1761). The First Protest Of Virginia (1758-1763). The First Act For Revenue From The Colonies (1763-1764). The Menace Of The Stamp Act (1764-1765). America'S Response To The Stamp Act (1765). The Repeal Of The Stamp Act (1766). The Townshend Revenue Acts (1766-1767). First Fruits Of The Townshend Acts (1768-1770). The Anglican Episcopate And The Revolution (1638-1775). Institutional Beginnings Of The West (1768-1775). Royal Orders And Committees Of Correspondence (1770-1773). The Tea-Party And The Coercive Acts (1773-1774). The First Continental Congress (1774). The Appeal To Arms (1774-1775). The Case Of The Loyalists (1763-1775).