America's beginnings : the dramatic events that shaped a nation's character

America's beginnings : the dramatic events that shaped a nation's character / Tony Williams.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Tony, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Williamsburg, Va. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ; in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, ©2010.
Subjects:
1600-1775
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Table of 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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