Saturday, September 24, 2011

American Revolution and American Revolutionary War

INDEPENDENCE AND WAR

The essence of the matter:
liberty & empire
whig view of history:
liberty & power
watchfulness
two view of liberty:
provincial & taxation
constitution and empire
The logic of the case:
Townshend
Dickinson’s Letters from a Farmer
slavery & taxation
Tea & the Tea Party
Intolerable Acts & War
Lexington & Concord
The significance of the Quebec Act
Towards Independence
The difficult logic of independence
Dulaney & Dickinson


Common Sense
Common Sense & Whig history
Paine’s career
nationality
non-involvement with American issues
radical Protestant traditions
The argument
ancient tyrannies & the republican principle
what is a republic?
did independence matter?
millennial traditions
Declaration of Independence
analyzing the document
logic of the case
Jefferson & Paine


WAR AND INDEPENDENCE
Aftermath of Seven Years’ War
Stamp Act
taxation without representation
What is REPRESENTATION?
taxation & representation
Whately & Dulaney:
VIRTUAL and ACTUAL
internal vs. external taxation
taxation & legislation
Responses:
pamphlet
petition
resolution
boycott
resistance
Resisting authority
Sons of Liberty & Loyal 9
Ebenezer Mackintosh
Repeal & Declaratory Act
British argument?
BF & House of Commons
the sources of British liberty
Whig & Protestant interpretations of history
watchfulness
Townshend duties
Dickinson’s Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
More taxes?
Intolerable Acts
ports & governments
Quebec
Lexington & Concord
war without independence
Thomas Paine & Common Sense
Revolutionary War

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