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At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 of the most important and dramatic events from the colonial and Revolutionary period-some known and some forgotten-from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention.
List of contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Lost Colony
Chapter 2: Jamestown
Chapter 3: Starving Time
Chapter 4:First Representative Legislature in Britain's New World
Chapter 5: First Africans
Chapter 6:Mayflower Compact
Chapter 7:City Upon a Hill
Chapter 8:Indian Uprising of 1622
Chapter 9: Dissents of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams
Chapter 10: Pequot War
Chapter 11: King Philip's War
Chapter 12: Bacon's Rebellion
Chapter 13:Glorious Revolution in America
Chapter 14:Salem Witch Trials
Chapter 15: Boston Smallpox Epidemic of 1721
Chapter 16: Great Awakening
Chapter 17: Benjamin Franklin and the Lightning Rod
Chapter 18: Albany Plan of Union
Chapter 19: Great Meadows
Chapter 20: Braddock's March
Chapter 21: Royal Proclamation of 1763
Chapter 22: Stamp Act
Chapter 23: Townshend Acts
Chapter 24: Boston Massacre
Chapter 25: Boston Tea Party
Chapter 26: Continental Congress
Chapter 27: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Chapter 28: Lexington and Concord
Chapter 29: Bunker Hill
Chapter 30: Fort Ticonderoga
Chapter 31: Common Sense
Chapter 32: Declaration of Rights
Chapter 33: Declaration of Independence
Chapter 34: Crossing the Delaware
Chapter 35: Saratoga
Chapter 36: French Alliance
Chapter 37: Valley Forge
Chapter 38: Guilford Courthouse
Chapter 39: Yorktown
Chapter 40: Newburgh Conspiracy
Chapter 41: Peace Treaty of 1783
Chapter 42: Washington Surrenders His Commission
Chapter 43: Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Chapter 44: Annapolis Convention
Chapter 45: Shays' Rebellion
Chapter 46: Constitutional Convention
Chapter 47: Ratifying Conventions
Chapter 48: The Federalist
Chapter 49: Inauguration of George Washington
Chapter 50: Bill of Rights
Bibliography
Index
About the author
By Tony J. Williams
Summary
At a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 of the most important and dramatic events from the colonial and Revolutionary period-some known and some forgotten-from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention.
