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The founding of a nation: a history of the American Revolution, 1763-1776

Jensen, Merrill.

Year: 1968.

Publisher: Oxford University Press.

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Introduction

Part One: The First Crisis

I America in 1763

II British Politics, Policies, and America, 1763-1765

II The Economics and the Politics of American Protest, 1763-1764

IV The Revolt Against the Stamp Act

V The Nullification of the Stamp Act

VI The First British Retreat: Repeal of the Stamp Act and Commercial Reform

Part Two: The Widening Rift

VII The Aftermath of the Stamp Act in America

VII The Aftermath of the Stamp Act in Britain: The Townshend Program

IX The Constitutional Protest Against the Townshend Program

X Politicians, Merchants, Customs Officers, and Non-importation in the North, 1767-1769

XI The British Army, Boston, Parliament, and Non-importation in the South

XII The Second British Retreat, 1769-1770

XIII The Climax of American Resistance, 1769-1770

XIV The Collapse of American Resistance, 1770

Part Three: The Final Break

XV The Various Roads to Crisis: America South and West of New England

XVI The Revival of Popular Power in New England

XVII From India to Boston Harbor: Tea, Tea Parties, and the Intolerable Acts

XVIII The Beginnings of American Union: The Creation of the First Continental Congress

XIX The First Continental Congress

XX The Road to Concord Bridge: The Way of Politics

XXI The Road to Concord Bridge: The Way of Force

XXII The Beginnings of a Civil War

XXIII Revolution vs. Reconciliation: The American Dilemma

XXIV The Dream of Reconciliation and the Drive for Independence 1775-1776

XXV The Founding of a Nation: "The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America"

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Title:

The founding of a nation : a history of the American Revolution, 1763-1776 Merrill Jensen.

Author:

Jensen, Merrill

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The founding of a nation : a history of the American Revolution, 1763-1776 Merrill Jensen.
Jensen, Merrill
New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.

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• United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes

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