| Description |
1 online resource (x, 197 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. I. Settlement -- 1. Lost Colony -- 2. Jamestown -- 3. Starving time -- 4. First representative legislature in Britain's New World -- 5. First Africans -- 6. Mayflower Compact -- 7. City upon a hill -- 8. Indian uprising of 1622 -- 9. Dissents of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams -- 10. Pequot War |
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pt. II. Colonies -- 11. King Philip's War -- 12. Bacon's Rebellion -- 13. Glorious revolution in America -- 14. Salem witch trials -- 15. Boston smallpox epidemic of 1721 -- 16. Great awakening -- 17. Benjamin Franklin and the lightning rod -- 18. Albany Plan of Union -- 19. Great meadows -- 20. Braddock's march -- 21. Royal proclamation of 1763 |
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pt. III. Resistance -- 22. Stamp Act -- 23. Townshend Acts -- 24. Boston massacre -- 25. Boston Tea Party -- 26. Continental Congress -- 27. Give me liberty or give me death |
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pt. IV. War -- 28. Lexington and Concord -- 29. Bunker Hill -- 30. Fort Ticonderoga -- 31. Common sense -- 32. Declaration of rights -- 33. Declaration of Independence -- 34. Crossing the Delaware -- 35. Saratoga -- 36. French alliance -- 37. Valley Forge -- 38. Guilford Courthouse -- 39. Yorktown -- 40. Newburgh Conspiracy -- 41. Peach Treaty of 1783 -- 42. Washington surrenders his commission |
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pt. V. Nationhood -- 43. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom -- 44. Annapolis Convention -- 45. Shays' Rebellion -- 46. Constitutional Convention -- 47. Ratifying Conventions -- 48. The Federalist -- 49. Inauguration of George Washington -- Bill of Rights |
| Summary |
At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 key events-some known and some forgotten- that shaped colonial and revolutionary America, from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140131
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010027630 |
| ISBN |
9781442204898 |
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1442204893 |
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