Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 197 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1442204877
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9781442204874
Content:
At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 key events-some known and some forgotten-that shaped colonial and revolutionary America, from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index
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America'a Beginnings; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part I. Settlement; 1. Lost Colony; 2. Jamestown; 3. Starving Time; 4. First Representative Legislature in Britain's New World; 5. First Africans; 6. Mayflower Compact; 7. City Upon a Hill; 8. Indian Uprising of 1622; 9. Dissents of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams; 10. Pequot War; Part II. Colonies; 11. King Philip's War; 12. Bacon's Rebellion; 13. Glorious Revolution in America; 14. Salem Witch Trials; 15. Boston Smallpox Epidemic of 1721; 16. Great Awakening; 17. Benjamin Franklin and the Lightning Rod; 18. Albany Plan of Union
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19. Great Meadows20. Braddock's March; 21. Royal Proclamation of 1763; Part III. Resistance; 22. Stamp Act; 23. Townshend Acts; 24. Boston Massacre; 25. Boston Tea Party; 26. Continental Congress; 27. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death; Part IV. War; 28. Lexington and Concord; 29. Bunker Hill; 30. Fort Ticonderoga; 31. Common Sense; 32. Declaration of Rights; 33. Declaration of Independence; 34. Crossing the Delaware; 35. Saratoga; 36. French Alliance; 37. Valley Forge; 38. Guilford Courthouse; 39. Yorktown; 40. Newburgh Conspiracy; 41. Peace Treaty of 1783
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42. Washington Surrenders His CommissionPart V. Nationhood; 43. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; 44. Annapolis Convention; 45. Shays' Rebellion; 46. Constitutional Convention; 47. Ratifying Conventions; 48. The Federalist; 49. Inauguration of George Washington; 50. Bill of Rights; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1442204893
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442204898
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442204874
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe America's Beginnings : The Dramatic Events that Shaped a Nation's Character
Language:
English
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