Transcript Chapter 5
James A. Henretta Eric Hinderaker Rebecca Edwards Robert O. Self America’s History Eighth Edition America: A Concise History Sixth Edition CHAPTER 5 The Problem of Empire, 1763–1776 Copyright © 2014 by Bedford/St. Martin’s I. An Empire Transformed A. The Costs of Empire 1. Britain’s national debt 2. British troops in the colonies I. An Empire Transformed B. George Grenville and the Reform Impulse 1. The Sugar Act 2. The End of Salutary Neglect I. An Empire Transformed C. An Open Challenge: The Stamp Act 1. First imperial crisis II. The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770 A. Formal Protests and the Politics of the Crowd 1. The Stamp Act Congress 2. Crowd Actions 3. The Motives of the Crowd II. The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770 B. The Ideological Roots of Resistance 1. Intellectual traditions II. The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770 C. Another Kind of Freedom 1. Patriot critiques of slavery 2. Southerners’ responses II. The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770 D. Parliament and Patriots Square Off Again 1. Charles Townshend Steps In 2. A Second Boycott and the Daughters of Liberty 3. Troops to Boston II. The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770 E. The Problems of the West 1. The Proclamation Line of 1763 II. The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765–1770 F. Parliament Wavers 1. The Boston Massacre 2. Sovereignty Debated III. The Road to Independence, 1771–1776 A. A Compromise Repudiated 1. The East India Company and the Tea Act 2. The Tea Party and the Coercive Acts III. The Road to Independence, 1771–1776 B. The Continental Congress Responds 1. Meeting in Philadelphia III. The Road to Independence, 1771–1776 C. The Rising of the Countryside 1. The Continental Association 2. Southern Planters Fear Dependency III. The Road to Independence, 1771–1776 D. Loyalists and Neutrals 1. Supporters of the king 2. Proponents of neutrality IV. Violence East and West A. Lord Dunmore’s War 1. Power vacuum in Ohio 2. Colonial action IV. Violence East and West B. Armed Resistance in Massachusetts 1. Minutemen 2. Lexington and Concord IV. Violence East and West C. The Second Continental Congress Organizes for War 1. Congress Versus King George 2. Fighting in the South 3. Occupying Kentucky IV. Violence East and West D. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense 1. Call for independence IV. Violence East and West E. Independence Declared