1. The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition
Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson
The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition
CHAPTER 6
The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis:
1754–1775
Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

2. The Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763
French-British Rivalry in the Ohio Country
The Albany Congress and Intercolonial Defense
The War and Its Consequences
British Leadership, Pontiac’s Uprising, and the Proclamation of 1763

3. The Sugar and Stamp Acts, 1763–1765
Grenville’s Sugar Act
The Stamp Act
Resistance Strategies and Crowd Politics
Liberty and Property

4. The Townshend Acts and Economic Retaliation, 1767–1770
The Townshend Duties
Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty
Military Occupation and “Massacre” in Boston

5. The Tea Party and the Coercive Acts, 1770–1774
The Calm before the Storm
Tea in Boston Harbor
The Coercive Acts
Beyond Boston: Rural Massachusetts
The First Continental Congress

6. Domestic Insurrections, 1774–1775
Lexington and Concord
Rebelling against Slavery

7. Chapter 6 The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis: 1754–1775
Map 6.1 European Areas of Influence and the Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763 (p. 178)
Map 6.2 North America after the Seven Years’ War (p. 181)
Map 6.3 Lexington and Concord, April 1775 (p. 205)
George Grenville, Prime Minister 1763–1765 (p. 186)
Newspapers Protest the Stamp Act (p. 188)
Teapots for Patriots (p. 192)
Edenton Tea Ladies (p. 194)
The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, Boston, on March 5, 1770 (p. 197)
Tossing the Tea (p. 199)
Phillis Wheatley’s Title Page (p. 207)