The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

90 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire conducted their fur trading through tribes such as the Algonquin and the Huron. This ...

In 1706, two years after Eunice had been taken from Deerfield, Massachusetts, her father, a puritan minister, was ransomed and r ...

92 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire With trifling exceptions, an insulating band of wilderness had always separated the F ...

The Great War for the Empire 93 Hussar Fashion, taking the Advantage of every Tree and Bush.” With an ignorance and arrogance ty ...

94 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire Britain Victorious: The Peace of Paris Peace was restored in 1763 by the Treaty of Pa ...

compared with the £82 million poured into the worldwide conflict by the British. The great victory produced a burst of praise fo ...

96 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire policy. An American who spent some time in London in 1764 trying to obtain approval f ...

Tightening Imperial Controls 97 began when the British decided after the French and Indian War to intervene more actively in Ame ...

98 DEBATING THE PAST Do Artists Depict Historical Subjects Accurately? B enjamin West’s The Death of General Wolfe(1770), depict ...

99 James Barry, Death of General Wolfe(1776) Roy Lichtenstein, Death of the General(1951) Source:Death of the Generalby Roy Lich ...

100 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire accepted the peace terms offered by a royal commis- sioner, Sir William Johnson, one ...

The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling 101 settlements members of the colonial assemblies had represented the people of the distr ...

102 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire of Henry’s resolutions were defeated, but the debate they occasioned attracted wide ...

The Declaratory Act 103 This does not mean that they disapproved of crowd protests, or even the destruction of property during s ...

104 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire based on specific charters, the word meant a written document or contract spelling o ...

The Boston Massacre 105 moderate language and clearly reflected the convictions of most of the people in the Bay Colony, yet whe ...

radicals like Samuel Adams. But just as at the time of the Stamp Act riots, cooler heads prevailed. Announcing that he was “defe ...

The Tea Act Crisis 107 wholesalers, who distributed it to local merchants for sale to the consumer. A substantial British tax wa ...

108 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire such a self-described British friend of the colonists as Edmund Burke, agreed that t ...

Chapter Review 109 Table 3.2 Major British Tax Policies and American Resistance, 1763–1776 Year British Policy Colonist Response ...