Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 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.
1T65-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"
1766-Repeal Of STAMP Act" 'Declaratory
Act maintains right to tax
1767-Townsend, British chancellor of exchequer
brings in bill for taxes tea, glass; wine, oil.
paper, lead etc.
Observation-Disclosures agreement adopted by
Boston and spreads to other colonies AIassa-
chusetts legislature dissolved by George III. Brit
ish soldiers quartered In Boston.
1769-Lord North repeats all taxes except on
tea, retained for sake of principle.
1773-"Commttees of Correspondence" formed
10 enable colonies to keep in touch Boston
Tea Party"
177E"Boston Port Bill" closing Boston to
shipping and removing seat of government to
Salem. General Gage commander of British sol
ders in Boston, made governor of Massachusetts.
Regulating Act remodeng charter of Massa-
chusetts. "Quartering Act" Quebec Act" First
Continental Congress at Philadelphia Massa-
chusetts Provincial Congress meets and calls for
1900 Minute Men,
1T75-Parliament declares Massachusetts to be
in a state of rebellion. Armed clash at Lexington
deroga and Grown 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 eommander-in-chief.
1776-Evacuation of Boston by British com
panied by 1900 oyallsts. Repulse of Brith fleet
and army at Charleston. s. c. Battle of Long
Island and occupation of New York by British
JSattle of Trenton. Continental Congress pro-
tides for the establishment of state governments
and state conventions adopt constitutions Con-
gtess adopts Declaration of Independence
The most casual glance at this skeleton chro
nology shows il to be literally loaded to the mnz-
zle with the eighteenth century equivalent of po
litical and economic INT. The American Reyo
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 Tiss title to the colonies
was not n 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 We're 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 eolonists 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 We're resisted by every col
ony as incompatible with its essential rights and
by the antprerogatiye party in England
OF the thirteen colonies seven were royal col
nnies three charter and three proprietary coll
onies. Each colony was related to the others only
through the crown. All the conditions tended
rather to intereolonial hate than love Find the
causes that drove the colonies together and there
are the causes OF the Revolution.
George III was a stickler for the kings pre-
rogatves One of his first acts In relation to the
colonies was 70 revive the navigation and trade
laws which had been only nomnally enforced for
a century As a matter % fact all the colonies
were technically snugglers In that their evasion
of these laws gave them practically free trade.