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قراءة كتاب The American Revolution
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THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
BY
JOHN FISKE
With Many Illustrations
TWO VOLUMES IN ONE
Published for
THE EDUCATIONAL PRESS
By
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON
COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY JOHN FISKE
COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY ABBY M. FISKE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE
THIS BOOK OR PARTS THEREOF IN ANY FORM
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
TO
MRS. MARY HEMENWAY
IN RECOGNITION OF THE RARE FORESIGHT AND PUBLIC SPIRIT
WHICH SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION ONE OF THE NOBLEST
HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN AMERICA, AND MADE IT A
CENTRE FOR THE TEACHING OF AMERICAN
HISTORY AND THE PRINCIPLES OF
GOOD CITIZENSHIP
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I THE BEGINNINGS |
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|---|---|
| PAGE | |
| Relations between the American colonies and the British government in the first half of the eighteenth century | 1 |
| The Lords of Trade | 2 |
| The governors’ salaries | 3 |
| Sir Robert Walpole | 4 |
| Views of the Lords of Trade as to the need for a union of the colonies | 5 |
| Weakness of the sentiment of union | 6 |
| The Albany Congress | 6 |
| Franklin’s plan for a federal union (1754) | 7, 8 |
| Rejection of Franklin’s plan | 9 |
| Shirley recommends a stamp act | 10 |
| The writs of assistance | 11 |
| The chief justice of New York | 12 |
| Otis’s “Vindication” | 13 |
| Expenses of the French War | 14 |
| Grenville’s resolves | 15 |
| Reply of the colonies | 16 |
| Passage of the Stamp Act | 17 |
| Patrick Henry and the Parsons’ Cause | 18 |
| Resolutions of Virginia concerning the Stamp Act | 19, 20 |
| The Stamp Act Congress | 20-22 |
| Declaration of the Massachusetts assembly | 22 |
| Resistance to the Stamp Act in Boston | 23 |
| And in New York | 24 |
| Debate in the House of Commons | 25, 26 |
| Repeal of the Stamp Act | 26, 27 |
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