From Empire to Independence, 1750 - 1776
The Seven Years War in America
The Albany Conference of 1754
Colonial Aims and Indian Interests
Frontier Warfare
The Conquest of Canada
Indians and Europeans Struggle Over the West
The Imperial Crisis in British North America
The Emergence of American Nationalism
Politics, Republicanism, and the Press
The Sugar and Stamp Acts
The Stamp Act Crisis
Repeal of the Stamp Act
"Save Your Money and Save Your Country"
The Townshed Revenue Acts
Nonimportation: An Early Political Boycott
The Massachusetts Circular Letter
The Politics of Revolt and the Boston Massacre
From Resistance to Rebellion
Intercolonial Cooperation
The Boston Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts
The First Continental Congress
Lexington and Concord
Deciding For Independence
The Second Continental Congress
Fighting in the North and South
No Turning Back
The Declaration of Independence
Maps
Images
Vocabulary
People and Events
| The Seven Years War |
The Albany Conference |
William Pitt |
Treaty of Paris - 1763 |
Neolin |
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Pontiac |
General Amherst |
Paxton Boys |
John Peter Zenger |
Republicanism |
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James Otis |
The Sugar Act |
The Stamp Act |
Thomas Paine |
Townshend Acts |
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Richard Henry Lee |
Boston Massacre |
The Tea Act |
Intolerable Acts |
General Thomas Gage |
Review Questions
How did overwhelming British success in the Seven Years War lead to an imperial crisis in British North America?
Outline the changes in British policy toward the colonies from 1750 - 1776.
Trace the developing sense of an American national community over this same period.
What were the principal events leading to the beginning of armed conflict at Lexington and concord?
How were the ideals of American republicanism expressed in the Declaration Of Independence?
Recommended Readings
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991).
Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967).
Eric Foner, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (1976).
Lawrence H. Gipson, British Empire before the American Revolution (1936 - 1949).
Robert A. Gross, The Minute Men and Their World (1976).
Francis Jennings, Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies and Tribes in the Seven Years War in America (1988).
Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (1997).
Richard L. Merritt, Symbols of American Community, 1735 - 1775 (1966).
Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815 (1991).