The Holbrook news., 1921-07-01

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.
 Entertainment 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.
 h67-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 repeals all taxes except tea, retained for sake of principle
 773-"Committees of Correspondence" formed to enable colonies to keep in touch. Boston Tea Party"
 1774-'Boston Port Bil," 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 12OOO Minute Men,"
 1775-Parliament declares Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion. Armed clash at Lexington and Concord begins hostities. 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.
 1776-Evacuaton of Boston by British accom- panied by 1,50O loyalsts. Repuse 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- gle with the eighteenth century equivalent of po- litical and economic TNT The American Revo- lution inevitable sooner or later. The mar vel is not that 1t came, but that out of the cond tions grew a nation.
 What a 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 amend or revoke these charters Such rights and no more 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 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 a stickler for the kings pre- rogatives. One of his first acts in relation to the colonies was to revive the navigation and trade laws which had been only nomnalIy enforced for a century. As a matter of fact all the colonies were technically smuggers, in that their evasion of these laws gave them practically free trade.