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