Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766

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Edmund Sears Morgan
UNC Press Books, 1959 - 180 páginas
This 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
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1 The Sugar Act April 5 1764
4
2 The New York Petition to the House of Commons October 18 1764
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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
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8 The Stamp Act March 22 1765
35
THE ACTION OF THE COLONIAL ASSEMBLIES
44
The Virginia Resolves
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10 Governor Fauquiers Account
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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
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16 The Pennsylvania Resolves September 21 1765
51
17 The Maryland Resolves September 28 1765
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18 The Connecticut Resolves October 25 1765
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19 The Massachusetts Resolves October 29 1765
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20 The South Carolina Resolves November 29 1765
57
21 The New Jersey Resolves November 30 1765
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22 The New York Resolves December 18 1765
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The Stamp Act Congress October 724 1765
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24 The Petition to the King
63
25 The Memorial to the House of Lords
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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
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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
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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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Edmund S. Morgan is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. His many books include Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America and The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution.

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