Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-06-30

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-
quiring colonies to supply quarters fdf 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.
176S-NOn-mportation 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 on
tea, retained FIR 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" remodeling charter of Massa-
chusetts. "Quartering Act" Quebec Act" First
Continental Congress at Philadelphia. Massa-
chusetts Provincial Congress meets and calls for
1900 Minute Men,"
1775-Parliament declares Massachusetts to be
in a state of rebellion Armed clash at Lexington
ana OODcOru DeSlnS HOSlulueS. capture OF 1lcOn-
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-Evacuation Of Boston by British accom-
panied by 1900 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- nro-
vdes for the establishment of state governments
and state conventions adopt constitutions Con-
gress adopts Declaration of independence.
The most casual glance at this skeleton cbro
nology shows it to be literally loaded to the nnuz
zle with the eighteenth century equivalent of nc
ntical and economic INT. The American Revo
luton inevitable, sooner later. The mar
vel is not that it came, but that out of the condi
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 ra-
peal laws; could appoint rulers and remove them
The cOonists were not citizens of the realm hu+
subjects of the crown, having only such rights az
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
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
ones Each colony related to the others only
through the 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 sticker 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 nomindly enforced for
a century. AS a matter of fact all the colonies
were technically smugglers in that their evasion
Of these laws gave them practically free trade.