Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766UNC Press Books, 2012 M12 1 - 174 páginas This comprehensive documentary source book on the Stamp Act 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. Morgan has assembled sixty-five crucial documents on all phases of the crisis; on certain acute issues of the controversy nearly all of the relevant materials now extant are included. |
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... The London Merchants Warn the Colonists to Behave , February 28 , 1766 157 65. An American Reaction : George Mason to the London Merchants , June 6 , 1766 158 INTRODUCTION A NYONE WHO has taught history knows the alarming viii CONTENTS.
... The London Merchants Warn the Colonists to Behave , February 28 , 1766 157 65. An American Reaction : George Mason to the London Merchants , June 6 , 1766 158 INTRODUCTION A NYONE WHO has taught history knows the alarming viii CONTENTS.
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... colonists ' objections to parliamentary taxation , he will have at hand all the resolutions adopted by the colonial assemblies as well as selections from the public press . It will be possible for him to know more about the colonists ...
... colonists ' objections to parliamentary taxation , he will have at hand all the resolutions adopted by the colonial assemblies as well as selections from the public press . It will be possible for him to know more about the colonists ...
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... colonists . The colonists knew of the imminent passage of the act and sent protests both before and after its enactment . Formal protests were drawn up and endorsed by the assemblies of Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New ...
... colonists . The colonists knew of the imminent passage of the act and sent protests both before and after its enactment . Formal protests were drawn up and endorsed by the assemblies of Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New ...
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... colonists also included objections to the threatened stamp tax . The English answer to the colonial objections was expressed most authori- tatively by Thomas Whately , Secretary to the Treasury under Grenville . In a long pamphlet ...
... colonists also included objections to the threatened stamp tax . The English answer to the colonial objections was expressed most authori- tatively by Thomas Whately , Secretary to the Treasury under Grenville . In a long pamphlet ...
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... of Commerce , is humbly claimed by the Colonies , as the most essential of all the Rights to which they are intitled , as Colonists from , and connected , in the common Bond of Liberty , with the un- inslaved Sons THE SUGAR ACT 11.
... of Commerce , is humbly claimed by the Colonies , as the most essential of all the Rights to which they are intitled , as Colonists from , and connected , in the common Bond of Liberty , with the un- inslaved Sons THE SUGAR ACT 11.
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Chapter II THE GENESIS OF THE STAMP ACT | 24 |
Chapter III THE ACTION OF THE COLONIAL ASSEMBLIES | 44 |
Chapter IV THE AMERICAN PRESS | 70 |
Chapter V THE BRITISH PRESS | 95 |
Chapter VI THE PATTERN OF REBELLION | 104 |
Chapter VII REPEAL | 127 |
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Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766 Edmund Sears Morgan Vista previa limitada - 1959 |
Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766 Edmund S. Morgan Sin vista previa disponible - 1959 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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