The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1921-06-25

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
1G65-Parliament passes "Quartering Act" re-
quiring 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"
1766-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-Eon-tmpOrtation agreement adopted by
Boston and spreads to other colonies. Massa-
chusetts legislature dissolved by George I'LL Brit
ish soldiers Quartered in Boston.
17o9-Lord North repeats all taxes except on
tea. retained for sake of principle
1779-"Committees Of Correspondence" formed
to enable colonies to keep in touch. Boston
Tea Party"
177+"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" \remodeling charter Of Massa-
chusetts. "Quartering Act" Quebec Act" First
Continental Congress at Philadelphia. Massa-
chusetts Provincial Congress meets and calls for
1000 Minute Men"
1771Parliament declares Massachusetts to be
In q 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 NJ chief
1776-Evacuation of Boston by British, accom-
panied by $500 lOyalists Repulse of British fleet
and army at Charleston s. c. Battle of Long
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 it to be literally loaded to the muz
zle with the eighteenth century equivalent Of DO
ntical and economic INT. The American ReyO-
luton was inevitable sooner later. The mar
vel is not that 1t came but that out Of the condi
tons grew nation.
What a chaos It wasi 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 more did the
American colOnists have, according to the view of
che 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 its essential rights and
by the anti-prerogative 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 III was 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 nominally enforced for
q century. AS a matter Of fact all the colonies
were technically smugglers, In that their evasion
of these laws gave them practically free trade.