Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-06-24

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.
1765-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"
1866 Repeal of ''Stamp Act" "Declaratory
Act" maintains right to tax.
1767-Townsend, British chancellor of exchequer
brings in bill for taxes on tea, glass, wine, OIL
paper, lead, etc.
1768-Non-importation agreement adopted by
Boston and spreads to other colonies Massa-
chusetts legislature dissolved by George Ill. Brit
ish soldiers quartered in Boston.
1769-Lord North repeats all taxes except on
tea, retained for sake of principle.
1773-"Committees of Correspondence" formed
to enable colonies to keep in touch "Boston
Tea Party
1774-"Boston Port Bill closing Boston to
shipping and removing seat of government to
Salem. General Gage, commander of British sol
diers in Boston, made governor of Massachusetts,.
Regulating Act renodeng charter of Massa-
chusetts "Quartering Act" "Quebec Act" First
Continental Congress at Philadelphia Massa-
chusetts Provincial Congress meets and calls for
10000 Minute Men,"
1775-Parliament declares Massachusetts, to be
in state of rebellion. Armed clash at Lexington
and Concord begins hostties. Capture of Ticon-
deroga and Crown Point. Battle Of Bunker Hill.
Siege OK Boston. Canadian expedition under
Montgomery. Second Continental Congress at
Philadelphia votes to raise army of 10000 and
chooses George Washington commander-in-chief.
Evacuation of Boston by British accom-
panied by 1000 loyalists. Repuse of British fleet
and army at Charleston, S. G. Battle of Long
Island and occupation Of New York by British.
Battle Of Trenton Continental Congress pro-
hicb, e
and state conventions adopt constitutions Con-
gress adopts Declaration of independence.
The most casual glance at this skeleton chro-
nology shows it to be literally loaded to the muz-
zle with the eighteenth century equivalent of pc
litical and economic INT. The American Revo-
luton was inevitable, sooner or later. The mar
vel is not that it came but that out Of the condi-
lions grew nation.
What chaos it was The title to the colonies
was not in the people of England or in the state
but 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 as
granted them in their charters. The crown
claimed and exercised the right to amend or revoke
these charters Such rights and no did the
American colonists have, according to the view of
the party in England which stood for legal and
constitutional prerogatives of the crown. These
claims of the crown were resisted by every col
ony as Incompatible with It's essential rights ana
by the anti-prerogative party in England.
OF the thirteen colonies seven were royal col
onies three charter and three proprietary col
ones Each colony related to the others only
through the crown. All the conditions tended
rather to intercolonal hate than love. Find the
causes that drove the colonies together and there
are the causes of the Revolution.
George III a stickler for the kings pre-
negatives One of his first acts in relation to the
colonies was to revive the navigation and trade
laws which had been only nomnally enforced for
q century AS matter of fact all the colonies
were technically smugglers, in that their evasion
of these laws gave them practically free trade