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part of debt incurred during French and Indian
war. Colonial assemblies refuse. Parliament as
serts right to tax colonies. Issue of taxation
without representation raised.
II6o-Parliament passes 'Quartering Act" re-
curing colonies to supply quarters for British
army of defense. Stamp Act" putting tax on
newspapers, and legal documents. Stamp Act
congress issues declaration of rights"
1166-Repeal Of STAMP Act" "Declaratory
Act maintains right to tax.
1I61-Townsend, British chancellor of exchequer
brings in bill for taxes on tea. glass, wine, oil.
paper, lead. etc.
agreement adopted nv
Boston and spreads to other colonies. Massa-
chusetts legislature dissolved by George III. Brit
ish soldiers q%uartered in Boston.
l769-Lord North repeats all taxes except on
tea, retained for sake of principle.
1773-"Committees of Correspondence" formed
70 enable colonies to keep in touch. Boston
Tea Party"
1714-"Boston Port Bill closing Boston to
shipping and removing seat of government to
Salem. General Gage, commander of British sol
dlers in Boston, made governor of Massachusetts.
Regulating Act remodeling charter of Massa-
chusetts. "Quarterlng Act" Quebec Act" First
Continental Congress at Philadelphia. Massa-
chusetts Provincial Congress meets and calls for
1900 Minute Men"
7T5-Parllament declares Massachusetts to be
in a state Of rebellion. Armed clash at Lexington
and Concord begins hostilities. Capture of Ticon-
deroga and Crown Point. Battle of Bunker Hill.
Siege of Boston. Canadian expedition under
Montgomery. Second Continental Congress at
Philadelphia votes to raise army of 10000 and
chooses George Washington commander. in-chief.
1T76-Evacuation of Boston by British, accom-
panied by 1900 loyalists. Repulse Of British fleet
and army nt Charleston, s. c. Battle of Lony
Island and occupation of New York by British.
Battle of Trenton. Continental Congress pro.
vides for the establishment of state governments
and state conventions adopt constitutions. Con-
gress adopts Declaration OF Independence.
The most casual glance AT this skeleton chro.
nology shows II TO be literally loaded TO the mnz-
zle with the eighteenth century equivalent Of no.
litical and economic INT. The American Revo-
luton was inevitable. sooner or later. The mar.
vel Is not that II came, but that out Of the condI.
lions grew a nation.
What a chaos 1t was The title to the coIop,es
was not in the people of England or in the state.
bat In the crown. The crown could make and re.
peal laws; could appoint rulers and remove them
The colonists were not citizens of the realm. but
subjects of the crown. having only such rights ms
granted them in their charters. The crown
claimed and exercised the right to amend or revoke
these charters. Such rights and no more did the
American colonlsts have, according TO the view OF
the party in England which stood for legal md
constitutional prerogatives OF the crown. These
claims OF the crown were resisted by every col.
ony as incompatible with its essential rights ana
by the unti-prerogntive party In England.
OF the thirteen colonies seven were royal col
onies. three charter and three proprietary col
onies. Each colony was related to the others only
through the crown. All the conditions tended
rather TO intercolonial hate than love. Find the
causes that drove the colonies together and there
are the causes OF the Revolution.
George Ill was a sticklcr for the kings pre-
r%ogatlyes. One Of his first acts In relation to the
colonies was to revive the navigation and trade
laws which had been only nominally enforced for
a century. As n matter OF fact all the colonies
were technically smugglers, In that their evasion
of these laws gave them practically free trade.