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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bernhard Knollenberg; Bernard W Sheehan |
| ISBN: | 0865973822 9780865973824 0865973830 9780865973831 |
| OCLC Number: | 49260859 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1961. |
| Description: | xxxii, 368 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | British politics and colonial policy : 1759-1765 -- Royal instructions and the threat to home rule in the royal colonies -- The Twopenny Act dispute in Virginia -- Irritants in other royal colonies -- The disturbing activities of Archbishop Secker -- The British Army in America and the decision to tax the colonies -- The Proclamation of 1763 and limitation of westward expansion -- Amherst and the Indian uprising of 1763 -- Failure of the British Army -- Enforcement of the White Pine Acts -- Enforcement of the Sugar Act of 1733 -- Parliament taxes the colonies for revenue -- The English constitution and colonial taxation -- British restrictions on colonial trade and manufacturing -- New restrictions on colonial trade and currency -- Individual protests -- Legislative protests : Massachusetts and Connecticut -- Legislative protests : the middle colonies -- Legislative protests : the Carolinas, Virginia, and Rhode Island -- The protests fail : the Stamp Act is passed -- Colonial nullification of the Stamp Act. |
| Responsibility: | Bernhard Knollenberg ; edited and with a foreword by Bernard W. Sheehan. |
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