4. Boston New YorkContents The Great Awakening 89 1. Dean Josiah Tucker Advises a Divorce (1774), 3. . Maria Carter Describes an Encounter with the Klan (1871), 3. Governor William Berkeley Reports (1671), B. This was mission was not something that was completed over night, but instead too many years to reach the goal. Hamilton Upholds Law Enforcement (1794), 1. Benjamin Franklin Testifies Against the Stamp Act (1766) 117 It took several months for the full implications of the Tea Party to play out in England and America. Conquest narratives often fail to contextualize the true plight of Indigenous peoples in protecting their land. These events certainly satisfied proponents of expansion and influenced America's westward expansion. Southern Resentment Against England (1862), 1. Virginia Resents Restrictions (1671) 2. At the time, almost no one was calling for independence. Henry Lowther Falls Victim to the Klan (1871). One can appreciate why loyalists equated revolutionary change with disorder. Don Juan de Onate Conquers New Mexico (1599) 14 In the 1820s the U.S. attempted to purchase Texas from Mexico twice but both offers were refused. Dr. William Morton Administers Ether (1846), 3. 2. 0000001018 00000 n Juan Gins de Seplveda Belittles the Indians (1547), 3. They assumed that negotiations with officials in London would result in censure, and then, after emotions had cooled, relations with the mother country would return to normal. 2. The Growth of the Colonial Population (1740-1780), 1. But if. The punishment was far worse than anyone had anticipated. Thaddeus Stevens Demands Black Suffrage (1867), 2. Benjamin Franklin Testifies Against the Stamp Act (1766), 3. Their condition is truly pitiable: their labor excessively hard, their diet poor and scanty, their treatment cruel and oppressive; they cannot therefore. Andrew Jackson Denounces Nullification (1832), 1. Their major cities where they had people that could help them with supplies, hauling things, etc. Despite these achievements, opponents of expansions opposed because of events like the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American war. Which of his arguments were borne out when the colonies did attempt to form one nation? THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION, 1763-1775. The White South Asks for Unconditional Reintegration into the Union (1866), 3. It also set down regulations for trade with the mother country. The French Revolution: Conflicting Views (1790s), 2. !} [Content_Types].xml ( MO@&f]`pPv Mungo Park Describes Slavers in the African Interior (c. 1790), A Swede Depicts the Indian Trade (1749) 103 Daniel Leonard Deplores Rebellion (1775), 1. One member of Parliament announced that the flagitiousness of the offensethe dumping of the tea into Boston Harborjustified the belief that the town of Boston ought to be knocked about their ears, and destroyed. Political leaders in London insisted that the Americans deserved no special consideration, since they alone were responsible for the crisis. The Anglican clergyman Andrew Burnaby (c.17341812) landed at Yorktown, Va., on 6 July 1759 to begin an extended tour of the English colonies in North America, during which he visited Mount Vernon in 1759 and again in 1760. In this situation, emboldened and discontented people forge new solidarities. Some of his colleagues sensed, however, that the moment for constructive compromise had passed. This place is the property of colonel Washington, and truly deserving of its owner*. 1. Adam Smith's Balance Sheet (1776) 115 B. A Southerner Defends the Catholics (1854), 4. According to the Congress, the goal of the commercial regulations was to obtain redress of these grievances which threaten destruction to the lives, liberty, and property of his majestys subjects in North America.. 0000001310 00000 n The Burden of Mercantilism: Virginia Resents Restrictions (1671). Some of the reasons not only included physical exploitation but also an ethical maltreatment of the Native Americans. T$A:A The climate operates veiy powerfully upon, them, and renders them indolent, inactive, and unenterprising; this is visible in every, line of their character. 1. They guarded the frontier from nova scotia to South Carolina, but this was actually a fault because it was a big wide-open area. A British View of the Mexican War (1847), 1. A Dutchman Visits Harvard College (1680), 1. But if ever an idea was illusory and fallacious, I will venture, America is formed for happiness, but not for empire. An English Landlord Describes a Troubled England (1623), 4. As Norton explains, the incident served as a political catalyst for the subsequent spread of popular resistance throughout the colonies. Braxton has been dying of a pleurisy; but is now something better; I believe out of danger.3 Yr much obliged & humble Servt. It established precise dates for the cessation of the importation of British goods. Richard Henry Lee, an influential Virginian, described the legislation as a shock of Electricity, causing universal Astonishment, indignation, and concern. The most vexingthe Boston Port Actclosed the city to all commerce; other acts restricted town meetings throughout Massachusetts to once per year and gave the royal governor of the colony enhanced authority over political appointments. Benjamin Franklin Testifies Against . The next day we returned to colonel Washingtons, and in a few days afterward to Williamsburg (Burnaby, Travels description begins Andrew Burnaby. The Spectrum of Disagreement (1780s-1820s), 1. The Senate Snubs George Washington (1789), 2. by Mary Beth Norton. 0000000598 00000 n 2a: "Benjamin Franklin Analyzes the Population" (1751) 2b: "MGJC Discovers a New Man" (1770) 2c: "Andrew Burnaby Scoffs at Colonial Unity" (1760) Lecture 2.1b - Taxation and Resistance Readings 2.2 - Colonial Resistance 2d: "Benjamin Franklin Testifies Against . The Stono River Rebellion in South Carolina (1739), 1. David Wilmot Appeals for Free Soil (1847), 1. "Hw"w P^O;aY`GkxmPY[g Gino/"f3\TI SWY ig@X6_]7~ British leaders greatly increased the chance that the situation in America would explode by appointing a military officer, Thomas Gage, as governor of Massachusetts. A British View of the Oregon Controversy (1846), 1. This proposition confuses complaints about annoying parliamentary taxes with personal ambition within an imperial system reluctant to distribute offices and honors to colonists, who were viewed by Britains leaders as second-class subjects. The asterisk refers to Burnabys note about the gallant and public spirit of this gentleman as shown in his volunteer mission to the French commandant in the Ohio country in 1753. Unity was essential to sustaining a common cause. In addition, we will be venturing into the history of the United States of America to analyze and highlight the reasons why the American Revolution, The ^American Spirit The Pattern of Colonial Commerce (1766), 2. None of them had a definite sense of where fast-moving events were taking them. Jackson Vetoes the Maysville Road Bill (1830), 1. People living in distant colonies sent food to the unemployed workers of Boston. The committees that enforced nonimportation seemed to Loyalists to invite anarchy. Regulations at the Lowell Mills (1830s), 1. Crvecoeur Finds a Perfect Society (c. 1770), 1. Not surprisingly, an army of occupation served only to further enflame the populace. Francis Bernard, royal governor of Massachusetts during the 1760s, proposed a clever way to address the problem of frustrated ambition. A Lawyer Denounces Search Warrants (1761) 7. The possibility that clashes with British appointees during the 1760s would provoke extensive mobilization was very low. Travels through the Middle Settlements in North-America, In the Years 1759 and 1760 . The revolutionaries who came forward in 1774 would have found it hard to understand modern Americans who define liberty as the right to do whatever they please during a time of national crisis even though they know that their self-indulgence threatens the welfare of the larger community. The British had a long history of dealing with confrontations of this sort. 1 This was clearly seen throughout the entire first half of the 19th century. 1. They were also not good at fighting guerilla warfare. Massachusetts Voices Condemnation (1847), 2. The revolutionary seeds planted early in the reign of George III reached their natural and logical fulfillment with the Declaration of Independence. Adam Smith's Balance Sheet (1776) B. During the French and Indian war the colonists kept up illegal trade relations with some of the French. Lucy Stone Protests Traditional Marriage (1855), 4. James Fenimore Cooper Castigates Parties (1838), 2. 2. The Burden of Mercantilism 224 A Farmer Favors the Constitution (1788), 1. The suffering of Boston soon became the cause of colonists outside the city. Philadelphia Threatens . Richard Henry Lee's Resolution of Independence (1776), 3. The interpretive challenge turns on how we define the moment of transition. 7. Henry David Thoreau Praises Spiritual Wealth (1854), 1. Best of The New York Review, plus books, events, and other items of interest. In many places people feared that a few radicals were stoking a political crisis that could destabilize an imperial system responsible for widespread prosperity. The Former Slaves Confront Freedom (1901), 4. 0000001902 00000 n Representative Charles Pinckney Upholds Slavery (1820), 3. The following response should be ONE FULL PAGE in length and is worth TWO selections. Farmers in Gorham, a small village in Maine (then part of Massachusetts), for example, resolved that. Loyalist writers might have gained greater popular support had they shown a better understanding of the forces that were energizing the resistance movement. Adam Smith Criticizes Empire (1776) 123 He is his father's fifteenth child and he is the youngest son. Hutchinson reported to the men who ran the empire, I see no prospectof the government of this province [Massachusetts] being restored to its former state without the interposition of the authority in England. When Boston officials asked how long the city would have to endure closure, Lord North, chancellor of the exchequer, responded with calculated vagueness, The test of the Bostonians will not be the indemnification of the East India Company alone, it will remain in the breast of the King not to restore the port until peace and obedience shall be observed.. Marshall Asserts the Supremacy of the Constitution (1803), 1. 7. dcJpPR"H7 )=8So JUH"4ak:Crfs%n[ Ts]$lr'AV*yKOm{@>%{m7V%Lb$I'Th[! 86 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /L 558866 /H [ 830 209 ] /O 89 /E 14337 /N 15 /T 557102 >> endobj xref 86 16 0000000016 00000 n Benjamin Tillman's Antiblack Tirade (1907), 1. Clergyman Burnaby's Book Traveled across North America Writer Burnaby didn't believe America would prosper Andrew Burnaby The End Scoffs at Colonial Unity . As the events of 1774 demonstrated, however, a great many Americans of the lowest occupations strongly disagreed. Called the south lazy- slavery and the heat The Hartford Convention Fulminates (1814), 3. John Calhoun Demands Southern Rights (1850), 2. Charles Sumner Assails the Texas Grab (1847), 2. C. Britain at the Crossroads 221 As with the earlier protests, however, many Americans expressed reservations about what a group of men dressed crudely as Indians had done in Boston Harbor. 0000008803 00000 n I myself have been a spectatorand it is not an uncommon, sightof a man in the vigor of life, lying upon a couch, and a female slave standing. He asked, regarding interested, designing menor ignorant men, bred to the lowest occupations, whether any of them [were] qualified for the direction of political affairs, or ought to be trusted with it. No was the expected answer to the rhetorical question. Andrew Burnaby Scoffs at Colonial Unity (1760). Steamboats Lose to the Railroads (c. 1857), 1. A Defense of Buying Indian Land (1722), D. Indian-White Relations in Colonial New England: Three Views of King Philip's War, 1. THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION, 1763-1775. The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775. The French had better leadership, defense, and knew the geography and wilderness of Canada well. Representative John Taylor Reviles Slavery (1819), 2. it was declared by England at the end of the French and Indian war- the colonists could not pass the Appalachian Mountains. This essay will discuss five significant developments in American History from discovery until 1877. By 1775 they were legitimizing popular resistance to imperial rule and channeling mobilization. Abolitionists Libel General Zachary Taylor (1848), 2. 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