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Become an expert on the Revolutionary War American Revolution For Dummies capitalizes on the recent resurgence of interest in the Revolutionary War period--one of the most important in the history of the United States. From the founding fathers to the Declaration of Independence, and everything that encapsulates this extraordinary period in American history, American Revolution For Dummies is your one-stop guide to the birth of the United States of America.
Understanding the critical issues of this era is essential to the study of subsequent periods in American history … and this book makes it more accessible than ever before. Covers events leading up to the war, including the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and the Boston Tea Party Provides information on The Declaration of Independence Offers insight on major battles, including the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and Yorktown Reviews key figures, including George Washington, Charles Cornwallis, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Alexander Hamilton If you want or need to become more knowledgeable about the American War of Independence and the people and period surrounding it, this book gives you the information necessary to become an expert on the essential details of the revolutionary period.
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- Höfundur: Steve Wiegand
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 2019-09-04
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781119593515
- Print ISBN: 9781119593492
- ISBN 10: 1119593514
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- What Not to Read
- Foolish Assumptions
- Beyond the Book
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1: The Roots of Revolution
- Chapter 1: A Revolutionary Story
- Setting the Stage
- Divorcing the Mother Country
- War’s Over — Now Comes the Hard Part
- Getting Government Off the Ground
- The Good Stuff at the Back of the Book
- Chapter 2: Here Comes Europe
- Shaking Up the Old World
- Scoping Out the New World
- Settling In
- Chapter 3: “In God We Trust”
- Colonizing for God and Profit — But Not in That Order
- Stumbling into Jamestown
- Purifying and Separating
- Plowing into Plymouth
- “Like a City Upon a Hill”: The Puritans
- Dissidents, Catholics, and Quakers
- Chapter 4: Together and Apart
- A Clash of Cultures
- The Virginia Wars
- Dividing and Conquering
- Getting Together
- Meanwhile, in the Mother Country …
- Restoring and Rebelling in New England
- Revolting with Bacon
- Sizing up the Impacts
- Chapter 5: The Fight for a Continent
- Growing toward Revolution
- Doing Business with Mom
- Flexing Political Muscles
- Relaxing Religiously
- Dangling Bugs and Road-Show Religion
- Connecting the Snake
- Waging World Wars
- “I Heard the Bullets Whistle …”
- Chapter 1: A Revolutionary Story
- Chapter 6: Causes and Effects
- Warring over the West
- Warm-Up Quarrels
- “The Minds and Hearts of the People”
- Cents and Sensitivity
- Sugar, Stamps, and Tea Make Trouble
- Chapter 7: From Rabble to Rebels
- Taking It to the Streets
- “I was soon on the ground among them”
- Tussling over Tea
- “Coercive” to You; “Intolerable” to Us
- Congressing
- “Let It Begin Here”
- Chapter 8: “We Hold These Truths”
- “The Whites of Their Eyes”
- Spreading the News — and the Fighting
- … And back in Boston
- Choosing to Fight, Choosing a Fighter
- A Royal Paine
- The Hated Hiring of Hessians
- Cutting the Cord
- Trying to Confederate
- Chapter 9: Lose Until You Win
- Getting into Shape
- “The Fate of Unborn Millions”
- Crossing the Delaware — Twice
- Fighting for Time
- The War Moves On
- “O God! It Is All Over!”
- Chapter 10: The War Abroad
- From a Brit’s Eye View
- “Farmer George” or “Royal Brute”
- Making Friends in France
- Britain Stands Alone
- The War Goes Global
- Puzzling out Peace
- Chapter 11: The War at Home
- Neighbor versus Neighbor
- A “Situation Truly Deplorable”
- “Tampering with the Slaves”
- “Remember the Ladies”
- “O, Strange Englishmen Kill Each Other”
- Money and Mutiny
- Why They Fought
- Chapter 12: A Most Imperfect Union
- The General Goes Home
- Hard Money and Morris Notes
- A Toothless Government
- Moving toward a Fix
- Chapter 13: Who Were Those Guys?
- Defining the Founding Fathers
- Kicking the Slavery Issue down the Road
- Sorting out Signers, Framers, and Founders
- A Brief Look at Ten Top Founders
- Chapter 14: “We the People”
- Straggling into Philadelphia
- Tackling the Big Three
- Creating a New Kind of Congress
- Sidestepping Slavery
- Picking a President
- Cleaning up and Signing Off
- Chapter 15: Selling It
- Convincing Congress
- Waging a War of Words
- Convincing the Conventions
- Battling among the Heavyweights
- Setting up House (and Senate)
- Building a Bill of Rights
- Hail to the Chief
- Chapter 16: Branching Out
- “I Walk on Untrodden Ground”
- Ordering the Courts
- Taxes and Logrolling
- “Daily Pitted … Like Two Cocks”
- Saying Goodbye — Again
- Chapter 17: The Toddler’s Transition
- Electing Adams
- Trying to Avoid Foreign Entanglements
- Aliens and Seditionists
- The Revolution of 1800
- Chapter 18: Aftermath
- So, How Big Was It?
- What Kind of Revolution Was It?
- Why Did It Work?
- What Can You Learn from It?
- Chapter 19: Some Books Worth Perusing
- Books to Explore
- Chapter 20: (At Least) Ten Things You Didn’t Know about the Founding Fathers
- Twinkle-Toes George
- Franklin’s “Deadly” Instrument
- TJ and the Bears
- Tom Paine’s Bones
- Sam Adams Really Made Beer (sort of)
- The Price on Hancock’s Head
- I’ll Trade You Six Hancocks for a Button
- Whining — or Wining — about the Flag
- A Justice in Jail
- The Little Guy on the Big Bill
- Chapter 21: Ten Unsung Heroes of the American Revolution
- Joseph Plumb Martin
- “Molly Pitcher”
- James Forten
- Daniel Morgan
- Roger Sherman
- Nancy Hart
- Jeremiah O’Brien
- Daniel Bissell
- Salem Poor
- Deborah Sampson
- Chapter 22: Ten Quotes from or about the American Revolution
- Or Else Just Give Us the Vote Now…
- And the Choices Are…
- Sorry to Disappoint You, But…
- Uh, Are You Sure, Your Majesty?
- Take My Advice and Scram
- “Except Us…”
- A Stimulated Simile
- Keeping One’s Feet Dry
- Looks Good So Far, But…
- A Term of Endurance
- Appendix A: The Declaration of Independence
- Appendix B: The Bill of Rights: Amendments 1–10 of the Constitution
- Appendix C: Key Events of the American Revolution
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