THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Complete Edition In 2 Volumes). Fiske John

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      Table of Contents

       VOLUME I CHAPTER I THE BEGINNINGS

       The Lords of Trade

       The governor’s salary

       Sir Robert Walpole

       Weakness of the sentiment of union

       The Albany Congress

       Franklin’s plan of union, 1754

       Rejection of the plan

       Shirley recommends a stamp act

       Writs of assistance

       The chief justice of New York

       Otis’s “Vindication”

       Expenses of the French war

       Grenville’s Resolves

       Reply of the colonies

       The Stamp Act

       The Parson’s Cause

       Patrick Henry’s resolutions

       The Stamp Act Congress

       Declaration of the Massachusetts assembly

       Resistance to the Stamp Act in Boston

       And in New York

       Debate in the House of Commons

       Repeal of the Stamp Act

       The Duke of Grafton’s ministry

       The Townshend Acts

       Attack on the New York assembly

       Parliament did not properly represent the British people

       Difficulty of the problem

       Representation of Americans in Parliament

       Mr. Gladstone and the Boers

       Death of Townshend

       His political legacy to George III.

       Character of George III.

       English parties between 1760 and 1784

       George III. as a politician

       His chief reason for quarrelling with the Americans

       CHAPTER II THE CRISIS

       John Dickinson

       The Massachusetts circular letter

       Lord Hillsborough’s instructions to Bernard