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

110 Chapter 3 America in the British Empire Key Terms Albany Plan A proposal, drafted in Albany, New York, in 1754 by Benjamin F ...

Chapter Review 111 Research and Explore Franklin on George Whitefield (1771), p. 87 The American Revolution as Different America ...

Do you rebel against authority? 112 In 2010 the Samuel Adams beer company trumpeted beer’s role in founding the nation. It claim ...

The American RevolutionThe American Revolution 4 CONTENTS ■This 1857 painting depicts the destruction of a statue of King George ...

114 Chapter 4 The American Revolution Two weeks after the battle of Lexington and Concord, Ralph Earl, a colonial militiaman fro ...

The Battle of Bunker Hill 115 Men fled, leaving eight of their number dead. The British then marched on to Concord, where they d ...

116 Chapter 4 The American Revolution On June 17, the British tried to dislodge Continentals from fortified (and concealed) posi ...

The Great Declaration 117 while eager to have the support of the lower classes, were concerned about what they would make of act ...

118 Chapter 4 The American Revolution best known of all Americans and an experienced writer, was a natural choice; so was John A ...

Loyalists 119 political institutions and a new national spirit, all in the midst of war. Always the military situation took prec ...

120 Chapter 4 The American Revolution Revolution when all was going well and lost their enthusiasm in difficult hours. The divis ...

The British Take New York City 121 ATLANTIC OCEAN De law are Riv er Asu pinkRiver Ra rita nR iver Pass aic Riv er Ha ck en so ck ...

122 Chapter 4 The American Revolution William Mercer, painter of The Battle of Princeton(1786–1790), was deaf and mute. Charles ...

This overwhelming triumph changed the course and character of the war. France would probably have entered the war in any case; t ...

124 Chapter 4 The American Revolution soldiers who remained became a tough, professional fighting force. The War Moves South Spr ...

The War Moves South 125 the supposed presence of many Tories in the South, and the possibility of obtaining the help of slaves, ...

126 Chapter 4 The American Revolution But the tide soon turned. In 1779 the Spanish governor of Louisiana, José de Gálvez, admin ...

Negotiating a Favorable Peace 127 papers were found on the person of a British spy, Major John André. Arnold fled to the British ...

128 T his 1795 engraving of a Stamp Act protest delineates a class division. The three British Tories—one suspended, two sprawle ...

National Government under the Articles of Confederation 129 off Newfoundland and, far more important, to dry and cure their catc ...