Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... Causes and Character of the American Revolution ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1923 , 207 pp . ) is the best compendium ; by an English scholar who has a thorough knowledge of similar issues in the later British Empire . E. Channing's ...
... Causes and Character of the American Revolution ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1923 , 207 pp . ) is the best compendium ; by an English scholar who has a thorough knowledge of similar issues in the later British Empire . E. Channing's ...
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... Causes of Taking up Arms . 6 July 1775 Approaching Independence : ( a ) John Adams to James Warren , 22 April 1776 ( b ) Congress recommends the formation of State Governments . 10-15 May 1776 Virginia Bill of Rights , 12 June 1776 ...
... Causes of Taking up Arms . 6 July 1775 Approaching Independence : ( a ) John Adams to James Warren , 22 April 1776 ( b ) Congress recommends the formation of State Governments . 10-15 May 1776 Virginia Bill of Rights , 12 June 1776 ...
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... causes , however , can be studied in these documents . Since 1688 the colonies had been pushing toward a larger measure of self- government , as indeed the dominions have done in the last century . Then came an attempt to check this ...
... causes , however , can be studied in these documents . Since 1688 the colonies had been pushing toward a larger measure of self- government , as indeed the dominions have done in the last century . Then came an attempt to check this ...
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... caused English exports to the colonies to fall off almost one - half by 1769. In 1770 the North ministry , concluding that colonial duties on English manufactures were preposterous , repealed all the Townshend duties except that on tea ...
... caused English exports to the colonies to fall off almost one - half by 1769. In 1770 the North ministry , concluding that colonial duties on English manufactures were preposterous , repealed all the Townshend duties except that on tea ...
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... caused much irritation in Virginia , and are alluded to as a grievance both in Jefferson's ' Summary 1 See p . 86 for the abuses to which this system was liable . It worked particularly badly in Kentucky , where the surveys crossed each ...
... caused much irritation in Virginia , and are alluded to as a grievance both in Jefferson's ' Summary 1 See p . 86 for the abuses to which this system was liable . It worked particularly badly in Kentucky , where the surveys crossed each ...
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