America's beginnings : the dramatic events that shaped a nation's character /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. : Williamsburg, Va. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ; in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 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.
- pt. 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
- 19. Great meadows
- 20. Braddock's march
- 21. Royal proclamation of 1763.
- pt. 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.
- pt. 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. Peach Treaty of 1783
- 42. Washington surrenders his commission.
- pt. 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
- Bill of Rights.