Volume Ii Part 1 (1/2)

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

FROM THE EARLIEST DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.

TO THE PRESENT TIME.

by E. Benjamin Andrews.

VOLUME II.

NEW YORK.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

1912.

CONTENTS.

PERIOD III.

REVOLUTION AND THE OLD CONFEDERATION.

1763--1789.

CHAPTER 1. RESULTS OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.

How Important.

Vergennes's Prophecy.

England in Debt.

Tempted to Tax Colonies.

Colonies Strengthened.

Military Experience Gained.

Leaders Trained.

Fighting Power Revealed.

Best of All, Union.

How Developed.

Nothing but War could have done This.

Scattered Condition of Population then.

Difficulties of Communication.

Other Centrifugal Influences.

France no longer a Menace to the Colonies.

But a Natural Friend and Ally.

Increase of Territory at the Colonies' Disposal.

CHAPTER II. GEORGE III. AND HIS AMERICAN COLONIES

Character of the Young King.

Policy.

Advisers.

Indefinite Causes Separating Colonies from England.

England Blind to These.

Ignorant of the Colonies.

Stricter Enforcement of Navigation Laws.

Writs of a.s.sistance.

James Otis.

Stamp Act.

Opposition.

Vigorous and Widespread Retaliation by Non-importation.