Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-06-23

part of debt incurred during French and Indian
war, Colonial assemblies refuse. Parliament
serts right to tax colonies. Issue Of taxation
without representation raised
1T6o-Pariiament 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"
l76G-Repeal Of Stamp Act" "Declaratory
Act maintains right to tax.
l767-TOwnsend, British chancellor Of excheuuer
brings in bill for taxes on tea, glass, wine, oil,
paper lead, ETC.
l6S-Non-mportation agreement adopted by
boston and spreads to other colonies. Massa-
chusetts legislature dissolved by George Ill Brit
sh soldiers quartered in Boston.
1769-Lord North repeats all taxes except on
tea, retained for 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 state of rebellion. Armed clash at Lexington
and Concord begins hostilties. 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 mise army of 10000 and
chooses George Washington commander-in-chief.
1776-Evacuatfon of Boston by British accom-
panied by 1850 loyalists. Repulse Of British feet
and army at Charleston, S. G. Battle of Long
Island and occupation of New York bv Rritish
Battle Of Trenton. Continental Congress nro
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 mr.
ze with tile eighteenth century equivalent of DO
litcal and economic INT. The American Ravo.
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! 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 hut
subjects of the crown, having only such rights ms
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 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 a stickler for the kings pre-
negatives. One of his first acts in relation to the
colonies to revive the navigation and trade
laws Which had been only nominally enforced for
century. AS matter of fact all the colonies
were technically snugglers, in that their evasion
of these laws gave them practically free trade