03470nam 2200553Ia 450 991078616100332120200520144314.01-283-94037-X1-4422-0489-3(CKB)2670000000329164(EBL)1043754(SSID)ssj0000804486(PQKBManifestationID)12380803(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000804486(PQKBWorkID)10814466(PQKB)11280351(MiAaPQ)EBC1043754(Au-PeEL)EBL1043754(CaPaEBR)ebr10643311(CaONFJC)MIL425287(OCoLC)747306219(EXLCZ)99267000000032916420100709d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerica's beginnings[electronic resource] the dramatic events that shaped a nation's character /Tony WilliamsLanham, MD Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ;Williamsburg, VA in association with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundationc20101 online resource (209 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4422-0488-5 1-4422-0487-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.America'a Beginnings; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part I. Settlement; 1. Lost Colony; 2. Jamestown; 3. Starving Time; 4. First Representative Legislature in Britain's New World; 5. First Africans; 6. Mayflower Compact; 7. City Upon a Hill; 8. Indian Uprising of 1622; 9. Dissents of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams; 10. Pequot War; Part II. Colonies; 11. King Philip's War; 12. Bacon's Rebellion; 13. Glorious Revolution in America; 14. Salem Witch Trials; 15. Boston Smallpox Epidemic of 1721; 16. Great Awakening; 17. Benjamin Franklin and the Lightning Rod; 18. Albany Plan of Union19. Great Meadows20. Braddock's March; 21. Royal Proclamation of 1763; Part III. Resistance; 22. Stamp Act; 23. Townshend Acts; 24. Boston Massacre; 25. Boston Tea Party; 26. Continental Congress; 27. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death; Part IV. War; 28. Lexington and Concord; 29. Bunker Hill; 30. Fort Ticonderoga; 31. Common Sense; 32. Declaration of Rights; 33. Declaration of Independence; 34. Crossing the Delaware; 35. Saratoga; 36. French Alliance; 37. Valley Forge; 38. Guilford Courthouse; 39. Yorktown; 40. Newburgh Conspiracy; 41. Peace Treaty of 178342. Washington Surrenders His CommissionPart V. Nationhood; 43. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; 44. Annapolis Convention; 45. Shays' Rebellion; 46. Constitutional Convention; 47. Ratifying Conventions; 48. The Federalist; 49. Inauguration of George Washington; 50. Bill of Rights; Bibliography; IndexAt a time when surveys reveal that Americans know less and less about our past, Tony Williams provides entertaining and informative descriptions of 50 key events-some known and some forgotten-that shaped colonial and revolutionary America, from the Mayflower Compact to the Annapolis Convention. United StatesHistoryColonial period, ca. 1600-1775973.2Williams Tony1970-1531757MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786161003321America's beginnings3777647UNINA