The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 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
1105-~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"
l76d-Repeal OF "Stamp Act" "Dcclaratory
Act" maintains right to tax.
l70T-Townsend, British chancellor Of exchequer
brings In bill for taxes tea glass. wine. oil,
paper, lead etc.
lIuS--Non-importation agreement adopted by
Boston and spreads To other colonies. Massa-
chusetts Legislature dissolved by George Ill Brit
ish soldiers qunrtered In Boston.
170a-Lord North repeats all taxes except on
tea, retained for sake OF principle
i1T3-"Committees of Correspondence" formed
10 enable colonies to keep In touch. "Boston
Tea Party"
177i-"Boston Port Bill" closing Boston tn
shipping and removing seat OF government To
Salem. General Gage. commander OF British sol
diers In BOSTON made governor OF Massachusetts.
Regulating Act" remodcling charter OF Massa.
chusetts. "Quarterng Act" Quebec Act" First
Continental Congress- at Philadelphia. Massa.
chusetts Provincial Congress meets aud calls for
to,ooo minute Men,
1TT5-rarliamcnt declares Massachusetts to be
In "A state of rebellion. Armed clash Mt Lexington
deroga and Crown Point. Battle OF Bunker hin.
Siege of Boston. Canadian expedition under
Montgomery. Second Continental Congress at
Philadelphia votes 10 raise army OF 10000 and
chooses George Washington COMMUNICATIVE chief
1II0-Esacuation of Boston by British, accom-.
panied by l5Oo ioyalIsts. Repulse OF british feet
and army AT Charleston. :. c. Battle of Long
Island and occupation OF New York by British
Battle of Trenton. Continental Congress pro.
yides for the establishment Of state governments
Snd state conventions adept constitutions Con
gress adopts Declaration of Independence
The most casual glance AT this skeleton chro-
nology shows II to be literally loaded To the mug.
ME with the eighteenth century equivalent of no.
ltical and economic INT. The American Reyo
luton was inevitable. sooner or later The, mar.
vel Is not that II came but that out Of the conti.
lions grew u nation,
What chaos II was The title to IN, colonies
was not In the people of England or In the state
bat In the crown. The crown could make and re-
peal laws: could appoint rulers aud remove them
The colonsts were not citizens of the realm hut
subjects OF the crown having only such rights as
granted them In their charters. The crown
claimed and exercised the right 20 amend or revoke
these charters. Such rights and no more did the
American colonlsts 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.
ons as Incompatible with its essential rights and
by the antEprerogative party In England.
r the thirteen colonies seven were royal col.
oaies, three charter and thrive proprietary col.
onies. Each colony related 10 the others only
through the crown. All the conditions tended
rather To ntcrcoiouial hate than love, Find the
causes that drove the colonies together and ,here
the causes Of the Revolution.
George Ill was stickier for the kings pre-
negatives. One Of his first acts In relation TO IN.
colonies was to revive the navigation and trade
laws which had been only nominaily enforced for
a CENTURY. As a matter OF fact all the colonies
were technically smugglers In that their evasion