Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766This comprehensive documentary source book provides a case-study approach to American colonial history and serves as a problems source book on the key event in Anglo-American relations in the 1760s. |
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THE SUGAR ACT | 3 |
1 The Sugar Act April 5 1764 | 4 |
2 The New York Petition to the House of Commons October 18 1764 | 8 |
3 The Virginia Petitions to the King and Parliament December 18 1764 | 14 |
C THE REMONSTRANCE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS | 16 |
4 The English Defense | 17 |
THE GENESIS OF THE STAMP ACT | 24 |
5 The Colonial Agents Confer with Grenville May 17 1764 | 27 |
THE BRITISH PRESS | 95 |
32 William Knox on the Claim of the Colonies | 96 |
The British parliament can at any time set aside all the charters | 97 |
The whole Stamp Act appears to be unexceptionable | 99 |
35 Pacificus Lectures the Libertines of Virginia and the Pumkins of New England | 100 |
I am for Old England | 102 |
THE PATTERN OF REBELLION | 104 |
Boycotts and Riots | 106 |
6 Massachusetts Attempts to Forestall the Stamp Act | 28 |
7 The Debate in Parliament | 29 |
B GENERAL CONWAYS SPEECH FEBRUARY 15 1765 | 34 |
8 The Stamp Act March 22 1765 | 35 |
THE ACTION OF THE COLONIAL ASSEMBLIES | 44 |
The Virginia Resolves | 46 |
10 Governor Fauquiers Account | 47 |
12 The Resolutions as Recalled by Patrick Henry | 48 |
13 The Resolutions as Printed by the Newport Mercury June 241765 | 49 |
The Resolves of Other Colonies | 50 |
16 The Pennsylvania Resolves September 21 1765 | 51 |
17 The Maryland Resolves September 28 1765 | 52 |
18 The Connecticut Resolves October 25 1765 | 54 |
19 The Massachusetts Resolves October 29 1765 | 56 |
20 The South Carolina Resolves November 29 1765 | 57 |
21 The New Jersey Resolves November 30 1765 | 59 |
22 The New York Resolves December 18 1765 | 60 |
The Stamp Act Congress October 724 1765 | 62 |
24 The Petition to the King | 63 |
25 The Memorial to the House of Lords | 65 |
26 The Petition to the House of Commons | 66 |
THE AMERICAN PRESS | 70 |
27 A Letter from a Plain Yeoman | 71 |
28 Daniel Dulany on the Authority of Parliament | 77 |
29 The Objection to American Representation in Parliament | 88 |
30 Cato Denounces a vile Miscreant | 92 |
31 An Attack on designing parricides | 93 |
39 The Boston Riot of August 26 1765 | 108 |
40 The Newport Riot August 29 1765 | 109 |
The Sons of Liberty | 114 |
43 New York January 11 1766 | 115 |
45 Norfolk Virginia March 31 1766 | 116 |
46 North Carolina February 18 1766 | 117 |
The Collapse of Authority | 118 |
49 Thomas Hutchinson on the Collapse of Authority in Boston | 122 |
REPEAL | 127 |
50 The Committee of London Merchants to the Lord Mayors in England | 129 |
51 The Petition of the London Merchants to the House of Commons | 130 |
Opposition to Repeal | 131 |
The ingratitude of the Americans | 132 |
the spirit of rebellion | 133 |
The Campaign in Parliament | 134 |
57 Rockinghams Formula for Repeal | 141 |
B THE MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM TO THE HON CHARLES YORKE | 142 |
58 The Role of Benjamin Franklin | 143 |
59 A Colonial Agents Report of the Debates in Parliament | 147 |
B CHARLES GARTH TO RINGGOLD MURDOCH AND TILGHMAN MARCH 5 1766 | 148 |
60 An English Merchant Predicts Repeal | 154 |
61 The Act Repealing the Stamp Act March 18 1766 | 155 |
Reactions to Repeal | 156 |
64 The London Merchants Warn the Colonists to Behave | 157 |
65 An American Reaction | 158 |
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766 Documentary problems in early American history |
| Editor | Edmund Sears Morgan |
| Editor | UNC Press Books, 1959 |
| ISBN | 0807856215, 9780807856215 |
| Largo | 180 páginas |
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