A History of the American People
parts and learning.' It was part of Edwards' message that knowledge of God was education as well as revelation, that it was an a ...
joined forces with Gilbert Tennent, and an angry critic described how people wallowed in snow, night and day, for the benefit of ...
participated in it-perhaps three out of four of the colonists. It was not just the fainting, weeping, and shrieking which went o ...
But even more important than the new geographical sense of unity was the change in men's attitudes. As John Adams was to put it, ...
PART TWO ‘That the Free Constitution Be Sacredly Maintained’ Revolutionary America, 1750-1815 ...
If the great awakening prepared the American people emotionally for Revolution and Independence the process was actually detonat ...
Washington himself said he suffered from consciousness of a defective education.' That was why he never attempted to write his m ...
company to fire,' Washington reported. His Iroquois Indians attacked with their tomahawks. Before Washington could stop the kill ...
and demanding, even across the Atlantic. It conscripted its subjects and taxed them heavily. Moreover, it was a Catholic state w ...
rate the men in power there. There was arrogance, and arrogance bred mistakes, and obstinacy meant they were persisted in to the ...
By contrast, in American eyes, the British showed a consideration and delicacy towards the Indians which, the colonists felt, wa ...
its ways. He was fond of using the word Empire.' He was proud of England's. If anything his instincts were imperialist. He certa ...
Postmaster-General, the Bishop of London-all were involved in the colonies. The Admiralty alone had fifteen branches scattered a ...
Ship Duty had caused among the English gentry it the years leading up to the Civil War-and this historical parallel did not esca ...
watch. He became president of its first fire-insurance company and its chief actuary, working out the premiums. He took a leadin ...
new iron forges in the colonies which drew him into the great argument. His Observations Concerning the Increase in Mankind, Peo ...
various discontented tribes, and ravaged over a thousand miles of the frontier, destroying every fort except Detroit and Pittsbu ...
even more contemptuous view: I would not have men in mercantile cast every day collecting themselves together and debating on po ...
the Canon and Feudal Law (1768), which argued that the tax was unconstitutional and unlawful and so invalid. It says a lot for t ...
gave relief to the Canadian Catholics and set Upper and Lower Canada firmly on the road to self- government and dominion status. ...
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