A History of the American People
manure.' Yet he said of Washington: The moderation and virtue of a single character has probably prevented this revolution from ...
Jefferson's achievement, in his tract, was to graft onto Locke's meritocratic structure two themes which became the dominant lei ...
Americans now had to do what parliamentarians had to do in 1640. What we did,' said Jefferson later,was with the help of Rushwor ...
to the Privy Council to have the unpopular Governor Hutchinson of Massachusetts removed. He still believed in a negotiated compr ...
look for allies immediately. He wrote confidently to the English radical Joseph Priestley: Britain, at the expense of 3 millions ...
On June 14 Congress agreed to raise six companies on the Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia frontier, to be paid for by itself ...
the only possible outcome. Nor did he try to make a distinction, as Congress still did, between a wicked parliament and a benign ...
mankind' by giving its reasons; the second, with its riveting first sentence, the kernel of the whole: We hold these truths to b ...
It is a thousand pities that Edmund Burke, the greatest statesman in Britain at that time, and the only one fit to rank with Fra ...
Franklin claimed parentage (though it was probably written by Paine's follower, James Cannon) and took it proudly with him when ...
independent government carried on. So the British were never at any point fighting a mere collection of rebels or guerrillas. Th ...
patriots. How could he possibly know? He had never set foot in America. And it never occurred to him to go there and see for him ...
managed to survive another winter. It shrank during the cold weather, which he spent mainly in winter quarters, but expanded aga ...
French intervention, by land and sea, raised the stakes for Britain but brought no early end to the war. Admiral Comte d'Estaign ...
States, and withdrawal of all British forces; second, Canada to remain British and a definitive boundary to be drawn; third, agr ...
Smith’s notions of free-enterprise capitalism and a world market was good news both for America's farmers and for its infant man ...
and their distribution spread during and immediately after the conflict. It is a melancholy fact that the number of slaves in Vi ...
ultimately drove the law through parliament, which outlawed the international slave trade in 1807. The consequence for white Ame ...
The Anglicans, the religious group least affected by the Great Awakening, were predominantly loyalist, except in Virginia. They ...
English-speaking country. So if Britain lost America it gained Canada, a point reinforced in the war of 1812. The overwhelming m ...
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